Et si ça matchait ?
2026 · 2m
Directed by David Faure
Lina and Xavier have been exchanging messages virtually for three years, and today they will finally meet in real life.
Picked by Zoe
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A three-year digital romance finally meeting IRL could've been saccharine disaster, but Faure sidesteps the obvious beats—this feels like it's got teeth underneath the whimsy, and I'm genuinely curious what he does with the gap between the fantasy and the person.
The premise sits squarely in the romance-comedy tradition, but Faure's restraint—two minutes to navigate expectation versus reality—suggests a formal precision in how he's pacing the emotional reveal that recalls the economy of Koreeda or the Dardennes.
What makes this work is almost certainly a single choice in how the meeting unfolds—whether it's a cut that subverts the expected reaction, a silence where dialogue should be, or one detail in how Xavier or Lina registers the real person across from them—and I need to see which one Faure committed to.