À quel prix
2026 · 2m
Directed by Aurore Knol
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, family
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
A teenager in search of belonging receives, for her fifteenth birthday, a gift of sentimental value; the disappointment it causes pushes her father to do everything to offer her what she dreams of - but at what price?
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It's a straight heartbreak-and-redemption arc with a dad trying to buy back his daughter's love—exactly the kind of sentiment-first premise that makes most of us groan, yet Knol seems to be doing something quietly subversive with the disappointment itself, letting it sit uncomfortably rather than resolve it cheap.
À quel prix situates itself deliberately in the lineage of Dardenne-adjacent social realism, where the ethical weight of a single gift becomes a study in class, parental love, and the impossible arithmetic of belonging; the two-minute constraint forces an economy of gesture that feels earned rather than trimmed.
What makes this work is the restraint in the father's pivot—one moment of realized panic where he understands his daughter's desire isn't innocent, and from there every small choice (the framing, the ambient sound of his scramble) compounds that one emotional truth without overplaying it.