Il fera beau.
2026 · 2m
Directed by Fanny Preterre
Tones: contemplative, humorous
Four friends, a baby on the way and a mystery father: they look back over the mother-to-be's past conquests — who left a mark, and who has been forgotten.
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The premise wants to be a cutesy ensemble comedy about paternity and memory, which is precisely the kind of safe emotional archaeology that usually makes me check my phone — but Preterre's doing something weirder under the surface, treating nostalgia like a crime scene where nobody's quite sure what they're looking for.
A deceptively formal exercise in narrative structure: Preterre constructs the film as a collective interrogation, each friend's recollection a frame within the frame, creating the kind of nested perspective you'd find in a Rashomon-adjacent lineage, handled with restraint and temporal precision.
Preterre trusts the silences between confessions — the pregnant pauses (literal and figurative) where the camera holds on a friend's face just long enough for us to realize they're protecting something — and that choice to let discomfort breathe is what transforms a 2-minute domestic puzzle into something unexpectedly complex.