Do you like soccer? Do you like theater? Then you've got it! Lorànt Deutsch has come up with a revolutionary concept for our hero Fred, a frustrated film director who dreams of becoming a writer. In the meantime, he's doing a series of increasingly conventional and unsurprising interviews with footballers for sports channels. His love life is hardly more satisfying. He goes from conquest to conquest, refusing to be tied down. A blurred, disjointed daily routine. Until the day Fleur, more friend than conquest, tells him she's accidentally pregnant with his child. He had dreamed of being a producer, director or TV presenter. But never as a father.
Acting
Lorànt Deutsch's sweaty desperation is uncomfortably real.
Direction
Valérie Müller captures male panic with surgical precision.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes sports metaphors for emotional cowardice.
Director
Valérie Müller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lorànt Deutsch, better known as a novelist and historian, co-wrote this as a passion project—explaining why Fred's literary pretensions feel so authentically insufferable.
The film's 72-minute runtime mirrors Fred's attention span: he can't commit to a feature-length relationship, so why should his movie last longer?
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