7.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Summer of 85 (2020)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.2
Overview
What do you dream of when you're 16-years-old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you can't get a bigger kick than dying. And that's why you save it till the very end. The summer holidays are just beginning, and this story recounts how Alexis grew into himself.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Positive
Overview
What do you dream of when you're 16-years-old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you can't get a bigger kick than dying. And that's why you save it till the very end. The summer holidays are just beginning, and this story recounts how Alexis grew into himself.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
While featuring a same-sex relationship, the film's central conflict and resolution are deeply personal, focusing on universal themes of love, loss, and self-discovery rather than engaging with political or societal issues, leading to a neutral rating.
The movie features a predominantly white cast, consistent with its setting in 1980s France, without intentional race or gender swaps. Its narrative explores a same-sex relationship but does not critique traditional identities or center explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
Summer of 85 offers a deeply empathetic and affirming portrayal of a gay teenage romance. The film depicts the intense first love between Alexis and David with dignity and complexity, focusing on universal themes of passion, discovery, and loss. Despite a tragic ending, the narrative unequivocally validates the worth and beauty of their relationship.
The film 'Summer of 85' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative centers on a coming-of-age romance between two cisgender male protagonists, making the rubric's criteria for transsexual portrayal not applicable.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Summer of 85 is an original film based on a novel written by the director concurrently with the film's development. Its characters are original to this specific story and do not have a pre-existing canonical or historical gender from prior source material or real-world history that could be swapped.
The film "Summer of 85" is an adaptation of a French novel set in France. The characters in the source material were implicitly white French, and the film's casting of the main characters aligns with this, featuring white actors. There is no evidence of a character established as one race being portrayed as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.9
7.4
Critic Ratings
8.1
6.5
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