La fourmi et la cigale
2026 · 2m
Directed by Florent Chako
Tones: contemplative, mythic
What if La Fontaine did not tell us everything — what if the Ant had seen the Grasshopper with different eyes, or heard her with a different ear? A retelling of the famous fable.
Picked by Margot
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A fable retelling sounds like the safest possible move—except Chako's actually asking us to *doubt* the narrator, to sit in the Ant's unreliability, which is genuinely unsettling in a two-minute form; most people won't get why that matters, which is exactly why it does.
Chako positions himself squarely in the lineage of revisionist fable-work, but with the formal discipline to let La Fontaine's architecture do the heavy lifting—this isn't a deconstruction, it's a *reframing*, and the mythic tone holds because he respects the source material enough to complicate it rather than dismantle it.
The real move here is probably something small—a shift in how we hear the Grasshopper's voice, or a single shot that recontextualizes what the Ant was actually looking at—and whatever that choice is, it fundamentally rewires a story everyone thinks they know without announcing itself.