Dans ta peau
2026 · 2m
Directed by Myriam Michon
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, family
Tones: contemplative, tender, whimsical
Yolande is looking after her granddaughter Louison for the weekend; the little girl marvels at everything her beloved grandmother does, imitates her — and begins to notice a few differences.
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A grandmother-granddaughter mirror study that could've been treacly sentimentality in anyone else's hands, but Michon's doing something stranger here—letting the imitation game turn slightly uncanny, the wonder curdle into something unspoken. It's the kind of tender-turned-unsettling move that makes you realize what you thought was a simple premise was never simple at all.
Michon situates herself in a lineage of intimate family portraiture—Varda, perhaps Koreeda—but the formal control here is what arrests: the way observation becomes duet, the editing rhythm matching Louison's dawning awareness that sameness isn't inevitable. Two minutes of considered restraint that argues against sentiment through precision.
The entire film hinges on a single editing choice—the moment the imitation stops being perfect—and Michon times that micro-rupture with such specificity that 120 seconds of a child watching her grandmother becomes a complete emotional architecture. That one cut does everything.