BEFORE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Camille Falcone
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
Tones: contemplative, humorous, tender
Three longtime friends meet at the start of an evening at one of their flats before going out; as they finish getting ready, teasing and laughing, they forget the party itself — and in that 'before', they feel truly themselves.
Picked by Zoe
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It's a film about nothing happening, which could be the most boring premise imaginable—except Falcone somehow weaponizes that emptiness to make 'before' feel like the only moment that matters, which is genuinely perverse in the best way.
A classically structured meditation on presence and friendship that recalls the observational rigor of early Céline Sciamma, where the film's restraint and attention to intimate gesture become its own formal argument about what cinema can capture.
The entire film hinges on Falcone's refusal to cut away from the in-between moments—no montage, no destination—and that single formal choice transforms what could be a sketch into something that actually breathes like real friendship.