LATE AUGUST, EARLY SEPTEMBER

LATE AUGUST, EARLY SEPTEMBER is a perceptive and moving study of love and friendship among a group of young Parisians over the course of a year made by Olivier Assayas, the director of ‘Irma Vep’. Gabriel and Jenny are at the end of their relationship; Gabriel is beginning a new affair with the volatile Anne, whilst Jenny finds she cannot let go so easily. In the midst of this their friend Adrien learns that an old illness has returned, and he and those close to him must face up to the devastating prospect of his early death. Assayas’ intimate and absorbing film examines the transforming effect that approaching death has on the friends and follows their attempts to overcome the disappointments and regrets of the past and find the strength to face the future.

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