Le petit kart
2026 · 2m
Directed by Billal El Atmani
Genres: biography, coming-of-age, documentary
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Augustin De Loisy, a 22-year-old living with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, tells the story of his life — his relationship to his body, to time and to others, and how he moves forward with lucidity and determination.
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Everyone expects the neurodegenerative disease doc to wallow—instead El Atmani lets Augustin's voice carry the weight without a single manipulative swell, which is either radical restraint or just boring depending on your tolerance for sincerity.
A formally precise distillation of the coming-of-age essay documentary, where intimacy and rigor coexist; the two-minute architecture recalls the patient observational tradition of Varda and Wiseman, scaled down to something almost aphoristic.
The decision to let a 22-year-old with CMT narrate his own arc—unfiltered, without the documentary apparatus of slow pans or manipulative scoring—transforms what could've been inspiration-porn into something that actually trusts its subject's lucidity and humor.