Un voeu
2026 · 2m
Directed by Arthur Shelton
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
To tear his sister away from a stifling daily routine, Oscar takes her on an escapade to the edges of their concrete world.
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A coming-of-age story about breaking routine—sounds like every Mubi darling from the last five years, and Shelton doesn't seem interested in subverting that contract, which is the problem.
The tender restraint is admirable, and there's a lineage here—that European sensibility of small gestures carrying emotional weight—but the film doesn't quite achieve the formal precision that would distinguish it from competent work in this mode.
In 2 minutes, Shelton threads the needle between sentimentality and genuine feeling by trusting the physical landscape itself to do the emotional labor—that choice to let concrete and distance speak instead of underline the moment is what transforms a simple premise into something that lingers.