Trop Mignon !
2026 · 2m
Directed by Thybault D'Anzul
Tones: contemplative, humorous
Marine comes to visit her friend who has just had a baby. It quickly becomes clear that she is far more interested in the prospect of seeing the child than in news of her friend.
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Everyone expects the obvious betrayal angle—friend jealousy, maternal instinct drama—but D'Anzul seems genuinely uninterested in those hooks; the real subversion is how little the film cares about *resolving* the tension at all.
A deceptively controlled piece that sits comfortably in the French comedic-dramatic tradition, where social discomfort and unspoken desire do the heavy lifting; the economy of two minutes becomes its own formal statement.
The entire film hinges on Marine's face in those moments before she sees the baby—that specific choice to linger on anticipation rather than reaction is what transforms a premise about selfishness into something genuinely unsettling and funny.