Comme disait Wilde
2026 · 2m
Directed by Emma Barcaroli, Guillaume Delvingt
Genres: comedy
In a painting workshop, a group gathers for a rather special "exchange session": nobody came looking for the same thing, and yet everyone will get their share.
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A painting workshop where nobody wants the same thing and everyone leaves satisfied anyway—that's the kind of premise that makes you sit up and ask what the hell the filmmakers are actually doing, and I'm betting the answer is funnier and weirder than the setup promises. This is exactly the kind of subversive absurdist logic that makes people uncomfortable at festivals, which means it's probably brilliant.
The whimsy here risks feeling slight, but there's a formal wit to the structure—a Wildean paradox dressed up as comedy, with the exchange session functioning as both plot and philosophical proposition, all in two minutes of disciplined execution.
Two minutes is nothing, but the fact that Barcaroli and Delvingt commit fully to the logic of mutual misalignment—everyone's after something different, everyone gets it—suggests they've made one key choice that ties the whole mechanism together, and I want to see what that single pivot is.