On New Year's Eve, accompanied by a bottle of champagne, Emile, 35 years old, signs up to Meet Me, a famous Internet dating site, with a good resolution for the new year: to find love. There are many men on Meet Me: cynics, comics, a few oddballs, and even great romantics. Emilie is far from imagining what is waiting for her in real life.
Writing
Dialogue that feels stolen from your DMs.
Acting
Cattani's deadpan desperation is perfect.
Direction
Sebbagh nails the comedy of online performance.
Director
Dorothée Sebbagh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 2012, this captures the exact moment dating apps shifted from stigmatized to normalized—Emilie's hesitation feels almost quaint now.
Director Dorothée Sebbagh based several encounters on her own MeetMe experiences, including the guy who brought his own karaoke machine to the date.
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