Le Beau Geste
2026 · 2m
Directed by Samuel Henry
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, sports
Corentin, 22, a devoted Paulo Dybala fan, sees his idol pull off a nutmeg during a Juventus match and becomes obsessed with reproducing it when he plays football with his friends.
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A Paulo Dybala nutmeg obsession sounds like a bit, except Samuel Henry commits to it with zero irony—which is the move that transforms a sports gag into something genuinely strange and worth defending.
The film situates itself in a clear lineage of Kiarostami-influenced sports shorts, though whether it earns that formal restraint or just coasts on the premise remains the real question.
What lifts this beyond a Instagram-bait premise is the decision to stay locked on Corentin's face between attempts—the cumulative micro-frustrations in a 22-year-old chasing muscle memory that isn't his tell the whole film without a word.