6 min.
LET IT SHAÏN
“Shaïn bright like a diamond”. Rihanna, the jewel of Barbados, is sure to make allowances for it, as imitations can sometimes be a good thing. Shaïn Boumedine does shine like a diamond, with all the facets of youth and unexplored potential. The effect he has, his aura, did not go unnoticed by the audiences who saw Mektoub my love: canto uno, Abdellatif Kechiche’s sixth full–length feature film, which hit the screens in March, and in which Shaïn plays the lead, in his first film role. He is Amin, an aspiring screenwriter, who returns to his birthplace, Sète, in the south of France, for the summer. His parents own a restaurant there. In the heat of the southern sun, with family, friends and some rather beguiling female holidaymakers, the young man…
