Belle nature
2026 · 2m
Directed by Erwan Chevalier
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, family
Tones: contemplative, tender
Anna, a young teenager, confides one evening to her father an event from her school day; her father tries to reassure her and finds an original way, in the middle of nature, to restore her confidence.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Two minutes of a dad reassuring his kid in the woods—sounds like a greeting card, and it probably is one, which is exactly why I'm not interested; there's nothing here that pushes back against the tender-family-drama consensus.
A formally restrained portrait of intergenerational vulnerability, positioned squarely in the lineage of intimate family cinema; the contemplative pacing and natural setting suggest a filmmaker aware of Koreeda's influence, even if the execution doesn't quite match that ambition.
That moment where the father stops talking and lets the landscape do the work—the specific choice to build confidence through silence and presence rather than words—is the hinge the whole film turns on, and it's executed with real economy.