Le non-tournage d'un film nommé Le Préjudice
2026 · 2m
Directed by Nicolas Nicol
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
A group of young friends spend a day trying to shoot a film about Jacques, whose love for Héloïse is unbalancing their friendship and who have agreed on one last day together to end the sweet agony.
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A film about NOT making a film—the meta-joke writes itself, except Nicol actually commits to the bit and lets the awkward logistics of a failed shoot become the emotional core. It's the kind of premise that sounds precious on paper but lands subversive in execution, which is exactly where contrarians live.
There's a lineage here—Vigo's *L'Atalante*, Rohmer's digressive hangouts—but Nicol's formal choice to frame the non-event as comedy rather than lament shows real curatorial restraint and tonal sophistication in how he negotiates the gap between intention and accident.
The decision to let the failed shoot *be* the film rather than cut around it or ironize it away is the move that sells the whole thing; it's a structural choice that costs nothing but attention and transforms a two-minute sketch into something genuinely alive about friendship dissolving in real time.