Courgette
2026 · 2m
Directed by Romain Tourbillon
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
Tones: darkly comic, humorous
During break, to prove that the English teacher looks like an American actress, a schoolgirl shows her two classmates a photo of the actress — which she really should not have done.
Picked by Zoe
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A two-minute setup about a schoolgirl committing a social catastrophe over a celebrity lookalike is such a predictable premise that Tourbillon has to *subvert* it just to make it watchable—and I'm genuinely unsure if he does.
The film understands the formal language of school-break comedy—the rhythm of whispered revelation, the clean geometry of three bodies sharing one secret—but lands somewhere between sketch and vignette without quite committing to either tradition.
The entire film hinges on whatever Tourbillon chose to show or withhold in that photo reveal, and how the actress's actual resemblance (or not) plays against the girl's conviction—a single framing decision that determines whether this is funny or just cruel.