Indésirables
2026 · 2m
Directed by Angèle Valin, Juliette Valin
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
Tones: darkly comic, whimsical
At a birthday party, Valentine learns the evening will continue at the beach — but she has forgotten one thing.
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A two-minute setup about forgetting something at a birthday party could've been a greeting-card sketch, but the Valin sisters lean into the discomfort—there's a darkly comic refusal to resolve neatly that most coming-of-age shorts are too polite to touch.
The formal restraint here is precise: a whimsical surface holding something acrid underneath, structured with the kind of tonal control you'd find in early Céline Sciamma or the French short tradition of hiding emotional weight in social observation.
What makes this land is the single choice to let the camera linger on Valentine's face after she realizes what she's forgotten—no cut away, no music swell—just the actor holding the moment, and suddenly the whole thing pivots from setup to character study.