On S'Embrasse?/Shall We Kiss? | Future Shorts

[@YetAnotherSentientBeing]

Best short I've watched so far !!! Brilliant acting. I was either him, or her, or sitting at the next table, listening. Thx for sharing !!

[@84bonez]

This gets me every time I watch it. C'est brilliant. 4 years later and I stand by this statement.

[@futurexx]

Thank you for watching.

[@davidgarner3275]

I agree with you- powerful...after all these years.

[@kevinboos9538]

Hands down my favorite short film!! Brilliant in every way. For the 'smile' to get her connected to real emotions, was breathtakingly real and brilliant cinema!! Thanks!!!!

[@RachelTV3]

Wow, magnifique, tout simplement magnifique, le jeu et la direction d'acteur, la realisation, les angles... Il y a tellement de finesse, de sensibilité là dedans, ça donne envie de pleurer quand ça se finit... Congratulations, I loved it, keep up the good work !

[@weejimmy187]

The best film on youtube, i must have watched this 15 times now, and it still chokes me, Brilliant!!!!!!

[@alibeshjr]

I've always get thrilled by French Cinema: simple, minimal -and at the same time- deep enough to greatly impress you, excite your feelings and stick in your mind for a long time. A combination that the commercial cinema (esp. Hollywood) seriously lacks today. ... And all the above ideas can well be seen in this wonderful short! Great! :)

[@bradevans7584]

I love this short film. Memorable. Ever since I first watched it on the big screen so many years ago, as part of the Valentine-themed Futureshorts program.

[@なーと笹塚]

日本人コメがなかなか見つからなかったため、この動画のコメント欄から推察されたこのストーリーを書き留めておきます。 あらすじは、始めに店に入ってきた女性1が10分後の演技オーディションの練習をする為に、店内にいた男性に協力を求め、練習に付き合ってもらうという内容です。 台本の中身は、男性と女性が別れ話をしているというシーンでした。 練習の最中、男性は女性1に対して少し違和感のある、しかし的確なアドバイスをします。別れ話という辛い場面であるのに「そこ、笑った方がいいよ」など。 女性1が泣いていた理由に関してはコメント欄を見てもハッキリとした言及はされていませんでしたが、僕の個人的な考えでは、あまりの演技のしっくりさに女性が感動したのでは...とか（浅はかですみません。） 終盤、彼女が出て行くと同時に、恐らく男性の連れである女性2が出てきて、「私たちはキスできる？」と聞いてこの物語は幕を閉じます。 コメ欄を見てると、「偶然にも男性が女性と出会う前に連れの女性2と同じ経験をしていたのでは」といった考察や、「連れの女性2も同じオーディションに出るのでは」という考察もありました。主に多かったのは前者の方です。つまり、男性は女性2と全く同じやり取りをしていたから、的確なアドバイスをすることができたのでは、ということです。 コメント欄や個人的な考えを混じって書いたので、誤った解釈をしていたらごめんなさい。少しでも参考になればと思います。

[@なーと笹塚]

ワイとしては女性1が未来の女性2だった説を唱えたいけどなぁ... 実は後悔していて何とかして過去に戻ってきたけど時すでにお寿司だったみたいな。 店を見渡してる時点で可能性としては低そうだが。

[@B10名古屋支部公式チャンネ]

ありがとうございます わかりやすかったです 日本人のコメント探してましたので助かります。

[@jadedconformist]

And when you realize he's giving her acting tips based on something that just happened (reality), it makes it even more so.

[@clappic]

5 étoiles , excellentissime ... c'étai de la comédie mais ca lui a permis de relativiser . le "tire toi" c'est ... excellent . Ce court metrage est un chef d'oeuvre , merci et bonne chance .

[@zaibatelzm]

2022 And I still watch it from time to time!

[@stellarola]

That's really genius. Great acting, I loved it.

[@davidgarner3275]

6 minutes and 13 seconds of some of the most powerful acting I've ever seen.

[@mehadihasan90]

Once i saw it many days ago.. I was searching this for a long time.. Thanks my luck to be found again.

[@mitchil]

THAT is the potential of a true actor/actress. Nice and short. Great work.

[@ftwsalio]

I feel like this short is much bigger then most of you initially believe...I mean, that woman comes in with her script and makes him recite it multiple times. While she is practising to try to emulate real life, he is literally practising for real life. In this way, we, like them, are always preparing for life. If she hadn't shown up, he would be sitting there thinking about the situation in his head repeating the same lines she just gave him, she's a representation of his internal thoughts...

[@sartajkang]

wow, you guys really are artists... one of my favorites... amazing!!

[@PlanetFrance]

A great idea and performed to perfection by the actors, c'est tout simplement genial!! bravo!

[@Bushelz]

The best part is that he now knows what to say after that. He was looking down in his hands and I felt like he was unsure, but after reciting those lines with that girl, he knows exactly how it's supposed to go. It's so often in life we're not sure of what our next line is, but it landed right into his lap.

[@readinesstoreceive]

This is so brilliant because it manages to captivate and envelop us with so much love and emotion in such a small period of time!

[@pixiepithon]

i thought it was brilliant and upon watching it a second time I saw the beauty of it.

[@MrSpectastic]

poor guy got dumped twice in one day.

[@cctc11891]

good actress. Something in this just breaks my heart everytime. - bonne actrice. Quelque chose en cela brise juste mon coeur chaque fois.

[@waynejonbrady]

Fantastic. His cold demeanor seems so uninterested at first, but it turns out that it just reflects the realism of his situation. Great work!

[@justbeaware]

I loved it! Very well played by the actors... And it's French! Bravo... :)

[@pawnshoppeantelope]

intense! crazy how much more emotion they could fit into this short clip, and here we have hollywood doing 3 hour epics where you don't feel a thing...

[@ultraxkid152863]

OMG speechless, just speechless. C'est Magnifique!!!

[@youarenowreadingthis]

That was remarkable. The acting was just incredible. The direction was nice but very simple to draw more focus to the emotion, good choice. Great job.

[@ghostlight1]

I come back to this time and time again over the years and it never fails to hit me in the feels. My take from it is that the words in the script were actually said by Paul's girlfriend before she went to the bathroom. But she said them in a hard way, hence why Paul asked the actress to smile whilst she said them.

[@SteveSalisbury]

I've came back to this after having been going through my FB posts. Posted this in 2018 with 1 Like! Immediately I watched it again and still gave me the chills. I absolutely agree that the "script" was already "acted out" between Paul and the ex-gf, which is 100% why he said "try it smiling"; a ridiculous ask for how you would assume this to have naturally been delivered, but it's so powerful. A smile mixed with sadness, and the actress, seemilngly can't understand why it is so emotionally empowering to deliver it that way. Anyway, can't describe effectively how this makes me feel. Hopefully this pings you a notification and gets you to re-live it again. Been 5ish years for me and still makes my hairs stand up. Not really sure why its got comparatively so few views by this point.

[@jdonnelly1977]

I completely agree with you, but I think Paul's girlfriend said it exactly the way he suggested the actress try it because he knew it was more hurtful and real that way.

[@MDunka]

Excellent! (cf. Webster, possessing outstanding quality or superior merit; remarkably good.) Bravo!

[@vashti26]

Les courts métrage francais n'ont pas perdu totue leur beauté

[@blushenka]

Oh wow, that is amazing. Well done!

[@samw181818]

To the person below, it's "Je ne t'aime plus." Plus replaces pas when used in this context. Like, jamais or rien. Kind of like the principal of double negatives in English. You could say, for example "Je n'ai dit rien" but not "Je n'ai dit pas rien" some also leave out the pas when doing this (J'ai dit rien) but in proper French, it should be used.

[@tyhendershot1095]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you would want to say "Je n'ai rien dit". The negation goes around the first verb if I'm not mistaken.

[@Clarachk]

Beautiful Job! My mouth fell open at the end. Wonderful acting, perfect lines. 5*

[@StandapNet]

Powalające! Naprawdę świetne! Uwielbiam filmy z zaskakującym zakończeniem. Merci beaucoup!

[@carpathianwrath]

Absolutley brilliant! An amazing job. I was pulled right into it.

[@Legop4o]

made me smile.. in a sad way.. love it.

[@croake44]

Vraiment excellent ! Le jeu des acteurs est magnifique, une réelle émotion passe au travers ! Bravo !

[@ororomunroe28]

The acting is so real and pure! Les films américains manque de ce soit disant "oumff". This is what I call acting! By far, the best short! "C'est fini Paul"

[@MATTPARS0NS]

That was very good and deserved to be featured. I love the french language

[@wolfwood002]

oh wow, the end was really, really amazing my heartbeat slowed down.

[@jrmayo]

I watched it again and again and it is still beautiful!!!

[@schistevert]

cette video me retourne à chaque fois que je la regarde, elle est magnifique. snif...

[@troir]

superbe !! finally some good french acting !!! so sad too .... the french way , nothing more nothing less !!

[@omernos87]

This is absolutely brilliant....

[@tminustech]

France is known for their fantastic film makers.

[@DieFliegendeRatte]

Oh, this was so great. At the beginning I thought "what the...", but they played great, both of them and when she started to cry, it gave me creeps! Great, very great!

[@tolgacan13]

Perfect acting, terrific and touching story! Thanks.

[@mmnurse]

that was beautiful! So emotional!

[@rex232]

that women was an amazing actress!

[@yourtango]

Wow. Great video!

[@Toogor]

Stunning portrayal of human emotion and irony

[@jokozetla]

Excellente scene, plein d'émotions, bravo !

[@omeidr]

@mch158 This was beautiful! I didn't understand why "Paul" was so somber the whole time until the end. It was because the girl that came in the last scene was his significant other, and the lines he was rehearsing with the random actress was more-or-less what he had just gone through in real life. That's why he was able to give the actress pointers to make what she was saying more real...

[@helloo1o1]

i had to watch it twice to get this Brilliantt !!

[@herrsin]

I nearly started crying. Very cool video

[@ororomunroe28]

Magnifique! Trop beau! Love this!

[@Platyfurmany]

She started getting into the emotion of the scene. This is where she no longer just reading the script but had started acting the part.

[@CBRAFILMS]

GREAT! nice short :) great acting, touching!

[@mikenkansas]

That twist at the end was great

[@cozycatcrochet]

I yelled out, "Oh that sucks!" At the end. This is very good! So sad!

[@iguane18]

De très jolis moments, très poignants. L'ombre sur le visage de l'homme est superbe. Elle pleure un peu trop mais peu importe cette scène par un moment de grâce. Merci de faire partager

[@clemarfilch]

Vraiment très très bien joué. Bravo à vous.

[@jeris33]

Absolutely brilliant

[@unknownunknown6531]

OMG Tellement bien joué! J'en pleure xD

[@gregorybrian]

Great for my learning French and for learning more about filmmaking. I expected the man, at the end, to reveal that he is the casting director and say "Congratulations. You have the part."

[@letmusiclivee]

gregory brian me too!

[@VJAZA9T2]

wow that is one of the best shorts i have seen

[@rokocolero21]

it was really good. i wasn't expecting that ending.

[@showcasemyplace]

That's serious acting! Beni

[@HarrisonWard123]

Absolutely wonderful

[@DIDATA]

dude you are so ....so ... i don't have words to say it you are making the greatest shorts i've ever seen "keep walking" as my old friend Johnnie says :D)

[@ororomunroe28]

C'est vraiment original! J'ai beaucoup aimé! Shasha♥

[@bao321]

oh irony this drama concludes yet simple and sweet but some harsh and painful it may contain in my perspective i like this video

[@Nzie]

INCLUDES SPOILERS very clever and well-done. it was interesting how he gave such good advice to her-- I thought he might be the casting director as well because it helped her be so genuine as an actor. But that he had suffered that same thing only moments before-- brilliant. Great work, and thanks for the subtitles so English speakers could enjoy it as well! ~Nzie

[@FWMc]

this was excellent.

[@Jaimeargsan]

Uhh.. nice.. very talented... n sad... pero igual ..talentoso... merci beaucoup..!!

[@Plomonsky]

Excellent!! Brilliant!! I loved it :)

[@jackbnmbl]

OK, I admit - I cried. Poignant.

[@VeraKlimkovsky]

This is brilliant! :) Love the movie!

[@snapkitten]

Wow!!! What can I say... loved it!

[@Galactivo]

malditos franceses los amo, por esto, es genial, casi chillo yo que soy bien hombrezote, gracias al canal y al director por compartirlo y gracias a mi amigo el betoch por recomendarlo...

[@testythetube]

Oh shit! He made her cry! Thats my boy

[@icarusclimbing]

C'est superbe Très réaliste! Bien Fait!!

[@krybaby1029]

standing ovations!

[@kkplx]

This touched me.

[@lcbaoh]

brill loved this

[@Queenstaful101]

This was awseomeeeee!

[@Danm91]

i loved it, it was amazing.

[@frenchytouch]

quelle performance..! bravo.

[@JMCSD]

This is amazing.

[@DaylightRobberyCA]

Check it out... basically, the actress crying had nothing to do with anything (i think). It's just that the dude drinking his coffee was basically experiencing the whole script. Read the script and look at what the guy's girl says to him. She says she's going to leave and asks for a kiss. And we all assume that the guy is going to say "No, Get Out." Shazam.

[@Zelli52]

Beautiful. I loved it.

[@walkerandwilliam]

absolutetly brilliant!

[@dAvrilthebear]

Thanks very much for that!

[@spidey66]

awesome scene!

[@rybpo7]

Super bien! Felicitations!

[@Jazzbob889]

wow! excellent film!!!! real sad

[@hcspeedcore4ever]

très très bon, avec une actrice bourrée de talent!

[@anastasia10017]

Fantastic.

[@Toohottorot]

@ClifftonBeach the second woman was actually breaking up with him. The first girl is basically saying exactly what his girlfriend just said to him. This all took place while his girlfriend was in the bathroom just like the first girl says her character does.