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Two minutes on parenthood and desire — a premise so earnest it could collapse into greeting-card sentiment, but Audoin trusts the quiet instead of the crescendo, which is either restraint or avoidance, and I'm genuinely unsure which.

A formal distillation of the intimate threshold where coupling becomes family; the economy of form mirrors the economy of the narrative itself, situating this firmly in the lineage of tender durational cinema.

The film's entire emotional weight hangs on the decision to keep the camera still and let time accumulate in the frame rather than cut toward sentiment — that patience, and whatever Audoin captured in the performers' faces during it, is what transforms two minutes into something that lands.