COULEURS PRIMAIRES
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alix Malnati, Edmond Edel
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
An eight-year-old child proudly shows his drawing; the film frames the dilemma of the adult facing him: answer honestly, smile and encourage, or fake an illness to avoid the confrontation.
Picked by Zoe
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Everyone expects this to be a saccharine meditation on childhood innocence, but Malnati and Edel weaponize that expectation—the real horror isn't the bad drawing, it's watching an adult's entire moral spine collapse in two minutes, which is genuinely perverse.
A formally elegant distillation of the adult-child encounter, positioned squarely in the lineage of Koreeda and Haneke; the restraint of the direction and the precision of the editing create a space where ethical discomfort becomes the entire subject.
The genius move is holding on the adult's face—not cutting away, not softening with music—just the raw paralysis of someone choosing between three impossible truths, and that refusal to edit out the silence is what makes two minutes feel like a moral reckoning.