C'EST BEAU D'ÊTRE JEUNE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Clément Leblanc
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
On an evening when nothing seems to go right, Olympe, a young actress who came to Paris to make her place, calls her grandmother, who has a vision of youth that only those who have grown old can have.
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A young actress calling her grandmother for reassurance—it's the kind of tender, expected gesture that usually puts me to sleep, but Leblanc seems aware of that risk, and there's something deliberately restrained here that suggests he's playing against the sentimentality rather than into it.
Two minutes of intergenerational dialogue that knows exactly where it sits in the lineage of French literary cinema—intimate, economical, with the kind of tonal precision that only comes from understanding what Bresson and Varda were doing with close attention and silence.
The decision to let the grandmother's voice exist mostly unseen, to anchor the entire film on Olympe's listening rather than her talking, transforms what could've been maudlin into something genuinely moving—that structural choice is everything.