EGO TRIP
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alexandre Weill, Daniel Spatzierer
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, romance
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
At a student party where he feels invisible, Yann is suddenly propelled to the center of attention when spin-the-bottle designates him — the most repulsive one — to face Lola, beauty incarnate; convinced he is irresistible, he does not see things that way at all.
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The entire conceit inverts itself in real time—what should be humiliation becomes delusion becomes comedy becomes something almost tragic—and the film never winks at you about which layer it's actually on, which is exactly why it works when it shouldn't.
A sharp comic exercise in unreliable perspective rooted in the romantic-comedy tradition, though the formal restraint—two minutes to sustain a premise built entirely on psychological discrepancy—feels slight without deeper thematic architecture.
The gulf between Yann's internal monologue and what we actually see playing across his face is the entire film, and that single performance choice—the actor's commitment to a conviction no one else shares—makes the absurdity land rather than fall flat.