Un peu de jugeotte
2026 · 2m
Directed by Léonie Laissus
Tones: darkly comic, tender
In a kitchen, a mother realises her daughter is on a diet and tries to change her mind; in a tender, ironic dialogue, the film questions how each generation looks at the next.
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A mother-daughter diet conversation sounds like the most predictable kitchen-sink drama imaginable, but Laissus threads something genuinely subversive through the tenderness—the generational inversion of who's actually worried about whom, who's actually lost—that sneaks up on you precisely because you weren't expecting it.
Two minutes of formally restrained dialogue that understands its debts to the French domestic tradition while refusing sentimentality; the ironies stack with precision, and the film trusts the viewer to hold competing truths about care, control, and intergenerational blindness simultaneously.
The tonal pivot—that cut or beat where concern flips from one direction to another without fanfare—is what makes this work; it's the kind of invisible structural choice that could tank a short if mishandled, and Laissus nails it with nothing but timing and restraint.