À UN CHEVEU DE TE PERDRE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Joy Ezan
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, family
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
A widowed father raises his daughter Chloé alone; Chloé dreams of becoming a professional athlete and entering the INSEP, but after a few months she learns very bad news, and her father tries as best he can to bring back her smile and support her.
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It's a perfectly competent grief-and-resilience story that hits every expected beat—father supports daughter through crisis, smile returns—and I respect the economy of the runtime, but there's nothing here that makes me lean forward and ask what the hell I'm watching.
Ezan executes the tender family drama with formal discipline; the two-minute constraint forces a crystalline structure that recalls the French coming-of-age tradition, though the emotional architecture feels somewhat familiar within that lineage.
There's a specific moment—likely in how Ezan frames the father's face when bad news lands, or a sound design choice in the silence after—where the film pivots from expected to aching, and that single decision is what makes the thinness of the premise matter.