Description

Titan 2021
18min | Short | Drama | 1 September 2021 (Belgium)
Storyline:Thirteen-year-old Nathan is about to join Malik and his gang for a strange integration ritual.User review:Nathan (the incredible Mathéo Kabati), thirteen years old, lives with his mother and his big brother in a lost village where only the bicycle promises him a few beautiful getaways. He maintains with his big brother – who is his model and his idol – a virile bond in which he has always learned that being a guy is being a big tough guy, which is further confirmed by a gift from his brother: a switchblade knife. This little guy, not out of childhood, covered with scars that suggest a hard past, is going to let himself be drawn into a strange adventure by his friend Malik. Decked out in his older brother’s oversized leather jacket, a cigarette behind his ear, and in his pocket, the knife he just received, Nathan has an appointment with two other kids for a dangerous and painful ritual. Once more,The film by Valéry Carnoy, in nineteen minutes, sets the correct and moving portrait of a decisive moment, the one which will make one take one path rather than another, this moment when an act decides to choose itself as a being. human. He questions with great sensitivity the fragility and strength put in tension by this evocative title Titan . What if being strong meant something other than what we had previously believed?
With its uncluttered staging, its efficient writing and its actors of unheard-of strength, Valéry Carnoy’s film imposes itself, from its first scene filmed on a laptop, by the accuracy of its vision of a youth in need of benchmarks. .
Director: Valery Carnoy
Writer: Valery Carnoy
Stars: Phénix Brossard, Jef Cuppens, Marcel Degotte
Countries of origin: France, Belgium
Language: French
IMDB Profile tt15766600