Un dernier tour
2026 · 2m
Directed by Romain Ozanon
Genres: coming-of-age, experimental, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, mythic, surreal
A merry-go-round wakes in the half-light; a child rushes inside, the machine starts at once, and the stages of life follow one another — revolt, love — on the ride.
Picked by Margot
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A merry-go-round as the engine of existential compression—life's arcs reduced to a single ride—should feel gimmicky, but Ozanon keeps it genuinely uncynical; the real subversion here is restraint.
Two minutes of mythic precision: the merry-go-round sits in a formal lineage stretching from *Carousel* through experimental cinema, yet Ozanon's editing and staging discipline make it feel like formal rigor earning its surrealism rather than reaching for it.
The choice to let the machine *start at once*—no hesitation, no buildup—collapses the threshold between childhood and fate; that single decision of pacing and causality does everything.