Un amour deux bêtes
2018 · 4m
Directed by Jade Amory, Julie Constantin, Lili Vilquin, Pierre Baroukh, Tommy Stive, William Liu
Genres: adventure, comedy, fantasy
Tones: absurdist, tender, whimsical
Rahi, a small merchant, travels peacefully through the jungle on the back of his large creature — until the creature meets a female of its own species for the first time, and trouble begins for the two friends.
Picked by Zoe
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Six directors on a four-minute jungle romance is either a red flag or a beautiful mess—and the fact that it somehow works as a tender, absurdist buddy comedy instead of collapsing into committee-think is genuinely surprising.
The film sits comfortably in a lineage of stop-motion fantasia (think Laika's sensibility) while maintaining formal control over its tonal shifts from whimsy to romantic entanglement to the bittersweet real world intruding on friendship.
Watch how the creature's physical performance—the specific weight and hesitation in how it reacts to its potential mate—carries the entire emotional arc without a word of dialogue; that's the decision that transforms a premise about jealousy into something genuinely moving.