Blaise (2026) Movie Drinking Game
Take a Drink: whenever someone points one of Blaise’s inadequacies
Take a Drink: for awkward interactions
Take a Drink: for politics
Take a Drink: every time a grenade changes hands
Do a Shot: for incognito TV stars
By: Henry J. Fromage (Two Beers) –
While the Cannes film festival is of course the preeminent international film forum out there, it also feels like practically the only place native films premiere across the full range of genres.
Blaise follows a pretty nondescript middle class French youth by that name whose unexceptionality contrasts with his escalating adventures in a particularly French brand of revolution.
A Toast
Co-directors Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue have developed a look and feel for an animated movie not quite like I’ve seen elsewhere. They deploy a strange yet oddly engaging animation style, like Archer melded with photorealism in all the wrong ways, and combine it with a wry outlook on modern French life.
It’s so French, quite droll and often funny, skewering their nation’s particular mixing of socialist ideals and First World comfortability spanning middle class ennui to the derangement of the utterly wealthy. Everyone romanticizes revolutionary ideals, especially the rich and spoiled, it turns out.
Planchon and Guigue twists the knobs on a quite effective comedy of errors, or rather social misunderstandings and politeness, to delightfully perverse lengths. Like seemingly straight suburban mom and manager cursed with a resting bitch face finding herself inexorably drawn into an entire lesbian workplace affair out of politeness kind of lengths. Or those that poor Blaise undergoes as he gets a girlfriend through literally no effort of his own and then partakes in an increasingly brazen series of terrorist attacks kind of lengths. It’s great.
Beer Two
Blaise is a pretty empty slate- even the movie doesn’t seem all that interested in him, following any other side character it can. Of course, that’s kind of the point, with even the title (and certainly the punch line of the climax) a kind of cruel joke on the poor insubstantial lad.
Verdict
Blaise is a thoroughly unique animated film about a milquetoast young man swept up in love and ill-considered revolution, through no fault nor apparent effort of his own.
