Et toi, tu faisais quoi à ce moment là ?
2026 · 2m
Directed by Anne-Sophie Soldaini
Tones: contemplative, tender
Born on the same day but not in the same place, Alhassane and Elsa meet one evening at a bowling alley — a unique face-to-face that recalls how, despite our differences, we are above all bound to one another.
Picked by Zoe
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The premise reads like a greeting-card coincidence—two people born on the same day meet cute at a bowling alley—which is exactly the kind of synchronicity-driven romance that makes me want to look away, except Soldaini seems aware enough of the sentimental trap to make me curious what she's actually doing with it.
A modest two-minute meditation on temporal synchronicity and connection that situates itself in the romantic tradition while maintaining formal restraint; the economy of the runtime forces real choices about what to show versus what to imply about shared destiny.
The entire film hinges on Soldaini's decision to stage this meeting in a bowling alley—a space of controlled chaos and chance—where the specificity of that setting and the small, tactile moments it allows becomes the thing that sells the premise rather than the premise itself.