COMME LES GRANDS
2026 · 2m
Directed by Anna Taybi, Mathilde Goiffon
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, family
Tones: humorous, tender, whimsical
Adam comes home from school to the family bakery and, amid the bustle of the bakehouse and the coming and going of customers, tries to win the adults' attention by acting like a grown-up.
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It's a perfectly pleasant domestic miniature about a kid wanting to be taken seriously—which is exactly the kind of consensus crowd-pleaser that puts me to sleep. Nothing here subverts expectation or makes me reconsider what a coming-of-age story can do.
Taybi and Goiffon situate themselves in a lineage of French humanist cinema, with careful attention to the choreography of the bakery space and the rhythm of intergenerational desire—formally assured, if somewhat familiar in its emotional register.
The entire film hinges on a single spatial choice: keeping Adam perpetually at the frame's edge or lower third while the adults dominate the center, which does the emotional work of his invisibility without a word of dialogue, and that's the decision that makes it breathe.