L' Invitation
2026 · 2m
Directed by Bang Nguyen
Alex, a well-mannered young man, is smitten with Léa and plans to invite her to a renowned restaurant to seduce her; whether the beautiful Léa lets herself be tempted by so interesting a proposition remains to be seen.
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A two-minute rom-com about a restaurant seduction pitch sounds like the kind of premise everyone's done to death—and Nguyen seems to know it, which is the only interesting thing here; the whimsy barely masks that it's still playing by the exact rules Felix has seen a thousand times before.
The tender, whimsical tone suggests a deliberate nod to the French romantic comedy tradition, and at two minutes Nguyen has to make every formal choice count—the question is whether the film knows what lineage it's actually in, or if it's just coasting on aesthetics.
Two minutes is nothing, but the reveal of whether Léa accepts hangs entirely on one micro-choice—a glance, a pause, a line reading—and if Nguyen nails that single moment of ambiguity, the whole premise clicks from cute into something genuinely earned.