What would you do if, on an ordinary Friday afternoon, a doctor told you that your life was about to change forever? That’s where we meet Nino Calvert (Théodore Pellerin, winner of the Critics’ Week Rising Star Award for this soulful performance) in Pauline Loquès’ tender debut feature.  What begins as a routine check-up quickly turns into a weekend that reshapes how he sees his world, his friendships, and his future.Over the course of three days, which also happen to include his 29th birthday,  Nino wanders through Paris in a kind of limbo. He has lost the keys to his apartment, and with them the ability to retreat from life. Instead, he drifts between encounters with his mother (Jeanne Balibar), old friends, and near-strangers, never quite able to say out loud what he is carrying. At times funny, at times heartbreaking, Nino captures that disorienting state between health and illness, where everything looks the same yet nothing feels familiar.Loquès draws inspiration from French cinema classics like Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7, but her approach is strikingly fresh. She uses sound and framing to place us squarely in Nino’s headspace: conversations that fade into noise, crowds moving in the opposite direction, moments of unexpected tenderness that catch us off guard. Pellerin gives a magnetic performance, his smallest gestures, a glance, a pause, a half-smile revealing the weight of unspoken truths.Despite its subject, Nino is far from a grim film. It is alive with humor, music, warmth, and chance connections, reminders that even in the shadow of illness, life insists on moving forward. Pauline Loquès has crafted a quietly powerful, deeply humane film about love, friendship, and the fragile beauty of simply being alive.Nicole Guillemet