Juste un instant
2026 · 2m
Directed by Thomas Coppola
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
In the silence of his apartment, a young man is absorbed by his computer screen. Suddenly feeling called by the outside, he goes in search of an instant of serenity, accompanied by his faithful animal.
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The scouts
Two minutes of a guy staring at his screen, then touching grass—it's the most millennial thing ever made, and somehow Coppola sells the ennui without irony, which is either genius or the exact opposite.
A cleanly observed study in the digital-age malaise tradition, though the gesture feels slightly undercooked for its formal restraint; the tonal register is controlled, but the film doesn't quite earn the weight of its melancholy.
That cut from the glow of the screen to natural light—sharp, unstudied—and the way the animal becomes the only thing grounding him; a single formal choice that reframes the whole thing from complaint into something genuinely tender.