A 35-minute short that'll make you cringe at every film bro you've ever met.
A young man, Eliot, comes back in his childhood district with the aim of preparing a movie for the Film School's admission exams. He meets up with Florence, a girl he hasn't seen for years. Together they recall the days when Eliot lived to the full thanks only to the super 8 camera his understanding father had offered him, sweeping along in his cinematographic adventures his best friend Maxime, who is wholly different from him and so lively, as well as Florence, whom he secretly had fallen for. The discord will soon lead to competition between the two boys until the day Eliot gets humiliated and changes his film roles in order to gain Florence's favors. But nothing runs as expected.
Direction
Reypens frames adolescent delusion with almost too much sympathy.
Cinematography
The super 8 footage within the film actually outshines the digital wraparound.
Director
Philippe Reypens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Philippe Reypens based this partially on his own film school application experiences, making the meta-narrative almost painfully autobiographical.
The fictional film-school-entry-within-the-film structure predates 'The Souvenir' and other recent meta-cinema by nearly a decade.
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