À travers tes yeux
2026 · 2m
Directed by Sarah Barret
Tones: contemplative, tender
Iris stands before the bathroom mirror while her partner Maël urges her — they will be late for their restaurant reservation; overwhelmed as she hurries, she admits she will not be ready in time, and his quiet gesture draws her into a suspended moment.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Two minutes of a couple almost missing a dinner reservation—if this were conventional, it'd be DOA, but there's something deliberately anti-climactic here that other scouts will miss, and that's exactly why it works.
Barret situates herself in a quiet lineage of durational intimacy cinema—Bresson, perhaps Kiarostami—where the refusal to resolve becomes its own formal statement about presence and attention.
That gesture from Maël—the quiet physical choice that suspends everything—is the entire film, and it costs nothing except the precision to hold on it and trust the audience to feel the shift.