Chipies
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alain desbonnets
Two forty-something sisters whom everything opposes still live with their old father, who thinks only of flirting; they bicker, but they love each other.
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On paper this is the most conventional family-comedy setup imaginable—bickering sisters, doting dad—but something about desbonnets' refusal to punch up or wink at the audience makes it almost confrontational in its sincerity, which is genuinely weird.
A modest two-minute structure that knows exactly what it owes to the French domestic comedy tradition while finding its own tonal register between tenderness and exasperation; the kind of economical character study that rewards the formal attention it demands.
In 120 seconds with three actors and what looks like a single room, desbonnets finds the exact moment—probably a glance, a pause, a line read—where you stop watching sisters perform conflict and start believing in the specific ache of loving people you'll never fully understand.