Funérailles d'un extraterrestre
2026 · 2m
Directed by Tess Lanfranchi-Rezzouk, Antony Yin
Olive finds her grandmother's funeral too bland; she decides at the last minute to restyle her according to her memories.
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The premise reads like feel-good pablum—granddaughter fixes grandma's funeral, learns about love—but the title's cosmic joke (why 'alien funeral'?) suggests these directors are smuggling something stranger into the sentimentality; I need to see if they actually commit to the weirdness or chicken out.
A two-minute film about funeral aesthetics and memory recalls the tonal sophistication of European shorts that treat domestic ceremony as philosophical space—if Lanfranchi-Rezzouk and Yin sustain that register without slipping into mawkishness, this sits in real company.
Two minutes to restyle a corpse: that constraint forces every choice to count, and the decision to play this as comedy instead of maudlin drama—that tonal pivot—is what either makes this sing or collapses it entirely; betting on the execution of that single gamble.