Kayak
2021 · 6m · Francia
Directed by Antoine Rossi, Auguste Lefort, Flore Dechorgnat, Solène Bosseboeuf, Tiphaine Klein
Genres: adventure, comedy, family
On a peaceful summer day, a father takes his baby son on a kayak trip. Between the challenges of a first river outing and the baby's whims, the father will not have a relaxing day, especially when an eagle joins the adventure.
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The scouts
Five directors piloting a six-minute dad-and-baby comedy should be a disaster—instead they've made something genuinely weird and unafraid to let the eagle steal the show, which is the opposite move most films would make.
The formal restraint here is admirable: a modest palette of escalating chaos that knows exactly when to cut, grounded in a lineage of Tati-adjacent physical comedy that respects both the form and its audience's intelligence.
That moment when the eagle becomes a genuine third character—not a cute punchline but an actual agent of disorder—is what transforms a competent family premise into something that justifies five voices in the room; it's the decision that elevates the whole thing.