What's a Summer Without Kissing?

Nicholas Braun's song, a French romance movie, and memories of summer love.

My boyfriend Eric and I are in a virtual movie club with all of his friends. I fall asleep ten to fifteen minutes into every movie. Because of this, the two of us have started to watch Day Movies. This week we watched Éric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale.

The movie follows the vacation of a young man, Gaspard, around a seaside French beach town as he falls in …