Tu ou Je ?
2026 · 2m
Directed by Benjamin Gonzalez, Mathilde Denoziere
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Facing her mirror, Noémie judges and criticises herself, sometimes hating herself, convinced she is never enough; will she manage to reconcile with her reflection?
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Mirror-self-criticism is basically the default move for introspective coming-of-age shorts, and this plays it entirely straight—there's nothing here that makes me say 'wait, what?' It's the earnest version of a premise everyone's circled a dozen times already.
The two-minute form demands real discipline, and there's a lineage of mirror-work in cinema (Cocteau, Vigo) that this engages with formally; the question is whether the execution matches the tradition it's standing in, or merely nods to it.
The entire weight lands on how Denoziere and Gonzalez cut between Noémie's face and her reflection—a single edit choice, a single decision about when to hold on disgust versus when to shift to something else, could be the hinge that transforms this from therapy-session into something resonant.