Grande soeur, j'aimerais être comme toi
2026 · 2m
Directed by Eva Deperrois
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, thriller
Tones: dark, melancholic, tense
Two sisters whom everything opposes — Aurélie, the perfect child, and Selena, the one everyone forgets — hide a growing jealousy behind family smiles, fed by comparisons and indifference, until Selena, devoured by envy, wants to resemble her perfect sister, even if it means taking her place.
Picked by Zoe
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The premise walks a well-trodden twin-shadow path, but Deperrois seems less interested in subverting the jealousy narrative than in executing it with precision — which is fine, just not the kind of genre-bending provocation that makes me sit up.
A cleanly composed study in sibling dynamics that sits comfortably within the European coming-of-age tradition; the formal restraint and tonal control suggest a director aware of her lineage, even if the thematic terrain isn't breaking new ground.
What arrests here is the economy of it — two minutes to unspool a rivalry that could sprawl into melodrama, held together by what feels like a single crucial framing choice or performance beat that lets us read Selena's envy without explanation, which is exactly the kind of constraint that forces a filmmaker to find the one true thing.