Mauvaise herbe
2026 · 2m
Directed by Jeremy Marchand
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
A teenager flees family violence and takes to the road without knowing where to sleep; he meets two outsiders whose unexpected generosity marks his passage into adulthood.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Coming-of-age road movie where strangers show kindness? Sounds like every Sundance submission from 2015—unless Marchand's doing something genuinely weird with it, this is exactly the consensus play Felix doesn't make.
The melancholic tenderness suggests a careful hand with tone, and at 2 minutes there's real discipline in compressing a passage-to-adulthood into such a tight frame; Marchand seems aware of how this sits in the lineage of intimate European coming-of-age cinema.
In 2 minutes, everything hinges on whether Marchand chose to keep the teenager's face mostly obscured during those moments of generosity—creating distance instead of easy catharsis—which would be the move that makes this work.