Summer of 85

Summer of 85 (Été 85, 2020) is a French drama from François Ozon you can watch online on iFILM, adapted from Aidan Chambers's 1982 novel Dance on My Grave, relocated from England to the Normandy coast and drenched in The Cure and salt air.

Sixteen-year-old Alex capsizes in a storm and gets pulled out by David — older by a year, self-assured in a way that Alex finds immediately disorienting. They make a pact: whoever dies first, the other will dance on the grave. At eighteen, that's the kind of promise that sounds thrilling precisely because it seems impossible to keep. Félix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin carry the film with a rawness that doesn't feel performed; the summer heat and the camera's closeness do the rest. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi plays David's mother, and her few scenes carry a quiet dread.

Ozon constructs the film as a mystery told in retrospect — you know something went wrong before you know what — and that structural tension gives an otherwise intimate story a persistent unease. Stream Summer of 85 (2020) online on iFILM.