17 minutes of French teens panicking about everything? Peak cinema.
Four friends are waiting for their final exam results... and their lives to begin. In the mean time, Lang-Vonh is worrying about his Asian heritage, Cédric is struggling to come to terms with being gay and Gaëlle and Chloé are trying to forget about everything until the results are in.
Acting
Penigault's silent panic speaks volumes
Direction
Vincent packs a feature's worth of longing into 17 minutes
Writing
Dialogue that captures how teens actually talk when adults leave
Director
Pascal-Alex Vincent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This emerged from France's late-'90s queer cinema wave, when directors like Ozon were making coming-out stories feel urgent rather than tragic. Vincent keeps the angst but ditches the punishment.
Penigault and Loiret Caille would later reunite in Vincent's feature 'Give Me Your Hand' (2008), essentially this film's anxious twins all grown up and still running.
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