Allez Papy!
2026 · 2m
Directed by Arnaud Préchac
Genres: adventure, comedy, family
Tones: darkly comic, tender, whimsical
A grandfather and his granddaughter prepare a singular commando operation.
Picked by Zoe
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A heist movie where the crew is a septuagenarian and a kid, played totally straight—it's the kind of premise that shouldn't work but the film's commitment to the bit is genuinely subversive, which is almost annoying because I want to hate it.
The tonal balance between whimsy and dark comedy recalls a particular lineage of European family cinema—Tati's playfulness meets a more contemporary bite—though the execution feels slight compared to that tradition's formal rigor.
Two minutes of pure economy: the film trusts a single-take aesthetic and lets the chemistry between the actors do the heavy lifting, and that restraint—refusing to cut away or punch up the gags—is what makes the absurdity actually land.