Si tu m'aime demain
2026 · 2m
Directed by Antonin Finat, Liam Etienne, Susie Blanchard, Frida Leroux
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
A young woman receives a letter from the past; carried by memories, she prepares for a long-awaited appointment - but certain expectations are harder to face than time itself.
Picked by Margot
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Four directors on a two-minute romance about expectation vs. reality—sounds like committee soup, but the film's refusal to sentimentalize the disappointment of meeting your past self is genuinely unsentimental in ways that feel almost hostile to the Hallmark machinery.
A meditation on time and anticipation that sits comfortably in the lineage of Haneke and Hong Sang-soo's interest in how cinema performs delay; the formal restraint—letter, preparation, confrontation—suggests a director collective thinking seriously about narrative economy and the weight of a single appointment.
The specific choice here is the withholding: what that letter says, what that appointment becomes, stays off-screen, which means everything lives in the woman's face and the gap between what she's rehearsed and what arrives—a two-minute film that trusts performance and negative space over exposition.