Danse avec moi
2026 · 2m
Directed by Marine Bernard, Constance Gonin, Thomas Guy
Invited to drinks at his friends Clara and Salim's, Maxime faces catastrophe: whenever he finds himself in front of a girl he likes, he is seized by an irresistible urge to start dancing.
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A compulsive-dance-around-crushes premise is exactly the kind of high-concept comedy that gets focus-grouped to death, so it's almost suspicious that Bernard, Gonin, and Guy made it work—but they did, probably because they're weird enough to lean into the body horror of it rather than sand it down to charm.
The film sits comfortably in a lineage of physical comedy shorts that trace back through Tati and early Keaton, though the whimsical-absurdist tone occasionally pulls against the formal discipline required to land a gag this dependent on rhythm and timing.
The magic is in the editing—the timing of when the dance cuts *in*, how long it holds before cutting *out*, and whether Maxime's awareness of his own compulsion is playing as tragedy or pure slapstick; that one choice determines whether this is slight or actually devastating.