Copain
2015 · 15m · Belgium
Directed by Jan Roosens, Raf Roosens
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, romance
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Fré is a teenager who maintains two entirely separate social lives — his conservative, wealthy family on one side, and his lower-class friends on the other. The precarious double existence collapses when he falls in love.
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The scouts
Two brother directors build a perfect apartheid of teenage class anxiety and then let a crush be the only thing that can detonate it — quiet Belgian poetic realism with actual structural nerve.
The Roosens brothers build a Dardennes-inflected class architecture and then let romantic feeling collapse it without melodrama or villainy — a Cinéfondation selection that trusts its premise completely.
Jan & Raf Roosens sustaining a class-warfare architecture — two worlds kept rigidly apart by a teenager's social choreography — then letting romantic feeling collapse it without melodrama or villain. Cannes 2015; a precise piece of structural work.
Festivals
- Cannes Film Festival 2015
- Gijon International Film Festival 2015, Best Short Film (Oscar Qualifying), Best Director, Best Script
- Cabourg Film Festival 2015, Swann d'Or – Best Short Film