In the winter of 1994 in the French suburbs, Léo and Baptiste, two polar opposite students, meet up one evening to work on a school presentation.
Acting
Forte and Le Vaillant's loaded silences speak entire novels.
Direction
Vu stretches 33 minutes into what feels like a lifetime.
Director
Benjamin Vu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in the actual Paris suburbs where director Vu grew up, capturing that specific 90s French working-class aesthetic before smartphones killed teenage isolation.
The title's double meaning — falling in love, falling through social cracks — becomes devastatingly clear in the final minutes.
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