Quand je serai grand
2026 · 2m
Directed by Loïc Blaise
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Mathieu, a child passionate about cinema, dreams of becoming a director; when his father tells him it is impossible, he grabs his phone and starts filming — years later, the adult walks confidently onto a real film set.
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It's a neat motivational beat—kid gets told no, becomes a director anyway—but it's the kind of consensus underdog story that plays it completely safe; Blaise is making a film *about* filmmaking that has nothing subversive to say about either.
A formally clean piece with clear lineage to the Varda school of cinema-as-autobiography, though the structure—defiance, time jump, triumph—feels more familiar than interrogated; the craft is assured, but it doesn't sit uncomfortably enough with its own tradition.
That decision to have the child *immediately* grab his phone and start filming—refusing the father's closure, collapsing the gap between dream and action into pure reflex—is what makes this work; everything else serves that single moment of instinctive creation.