La Vie tel qu'elle est
2026 · 2m
Directed by Justine de Gennes, Antoine Ducret
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, family
Tones: contemplative, tender, whimsical
Gabrielle does not like photographs: they lie, capturing beauty where there may be none. When she is given a camera for her seventh birthday, she thinks it is a terrible present — but decides to use it to take rather different photos.
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A kid rejects the camera as a tool of flattery, then uses it to expose truth—could've been saccharine, but the premise has teeth if the execution trusts the inversion rather than explaining it to death.
The film positions itself thoughtfully within a lineage of coming-of-age introspection (Vigo, early Truffaut), where a child's philosophical resistance to representation becomes the engine of formal discovery.
The entire film hinges on what Gabrielle actually *photographs*—that single decision about what beauty looks like when you're not trying to lie—and two minutes isn't enough to waste on anything but nailing that choice.