A birthday party becomes psychological warfare when desire wears a child's face.
Thomas can neither accept or change what he is. His perversion is a burden and his abstinence, a struggle. At his daughter’s birthday party, he happens to meet her newest friend, Mathilde. What was supposed to be a random event becomes a true battle for him.
Acting
Itovich's face does impossible work: shame, hunger, desperate normalcy
Direction
Guiraud frames pool scenes like horror; water becomes threat
Editing
Heartbeats as punctuation—literally
Director
David Guiraud
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