In a seaside town in Normandy, 16-year-old Alexis goes out on a boat to celebrate the start of the holidays but a sudden storm makes him capsize. David, 18, heroically comes to save him. Alexis has just met the friend of his dreams. Alas, the dream will only last one summer, the summer of' 85.

I read the novel in 1985, when I was seventeen years old, and I loved it. It spoke to me personally. The book is playful and inventive. It has drawings, press clippings, changing points of view ... I so much enjoyed reading it that, when I started directing short films, I thought: "If one day I make a feature film, my first will be an adaptation of this novel" (...) Films are made when they're supposed to be made. This story needed time for me to mature so that I would know how to tell it. In the end, I remained faithful to the novel's narrative structure. I adapted the story's background to make it French and I transposed it to the time period when I first read the book. The movie encompasses both the book's reality and my memories of what I felt when first reading it. François Ozon

François Ozon was born in Paris in 1967. With a master's degree in Cinema, he entered the famous French school of cinema La FEMIS in the director section in 1990. Since then, he has been shooting many movies in super-8, video, 16mm and 35mm. Many of his short movies have been in competition in various international festivals. A SUMMER DRESS won him the "Léopard de Demain" award in Locarno. SITCOM, his first feature, was in competition in the Critics' Week in Cannes in 1998.
Since POTICHE, he collaborates with Mandarin Production. Many of his features films has been selected in international festivals. In 2019 BY THE GRACE OF GOD won the silver Bear in the Berlinale Competition.

FILMOGRAPHY:
2018 BY THE GRACE OF GOD
2017 DOUBLE LOVER
2016 FRANTZ
2014 THE NEW GIRL FRIEND
2013 YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL
2012 IN THE HOUSE
2010 POTICHE (TROPHY WIFE)
2009 THE REFUGE
2009 RICKY
2007 ANGEL
2005 TIME TO LEAVE
2004 5X2
2003 SWIMMING POOL
2002 8 WOMEN
2000 UNDER THE SAND
2000 WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS
1999 CRIMINAL LOVERS
1998 SITCOM