MON SOLEIL
2026 · 2m
Directed by Dylan Gonidou
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
As a child, Arthur spent his weekends playing in his grandfather's painting studio. Years later, the young man discovers what time has done to the artist and his studio — and decides to act.
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On paper, 'a guy visits his grandfather's studio' is the most anesthetized coming-of-age setup imaginable — but if Gonidou actually inverts that into something uncomfortably about decay, complicity, or the violence of preservation, then maybe there's a subversive skeleton under the tender skin.
Two minutes is barely enough room for a mood, let alone a film, but the restraint here suggests a director thinking carefully about what to *not* show — the studio as palimpsest, time as the real subject, echoing a tradition of cinema that trusts silence.
The pivot from nostalgic memory to 'decides to act' is where this lives or dies — and my bet is Gonidou found one specific visual or sonic choice in that studio (a smell, a light, a single object) that makes the emotional shift feel inevitable rather than sentimental.