Premiering at the Locarno Film Festival after being held six years in post-production limbo, Abdellatif Kechiche ‘s “Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due” certainly merits the descriptor “long-delayed.” Whether it’s long-awaited is another question. The third and (one assumes) final installment in the French-Tunisian auteur’s film series chronicling young love, lust and unrest in the rugged French port city of Sète in the mid-Nineties, “Canto Due” boasts some of the dissolute sensory saturation and narrative torpor that earned the two previous “Mektoub, My Love” films — 2017’s “Canto Uno” and 2019’s “Intermezzo” — mixed-to-negative reviews on the festival circuit.

That “Intermezzo” was a near-plotless vibe movie running over 200 minutes didn’t help its commercial prospects, though other factor

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