A walk in the park
2026 · 2m
Directed by Audrey Faure
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
In a park, passers-by cross paths on an ordinary walk — walking, observing, brushing past one another — while, under the apparent tranquillity of the place, something circulates.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A walk in the park sounds like the most anodyne premise imaginable, but Faure's got something circulating underneath—the question is whether the film actually commits to the weird or just hints at it like a coward.
Faure positions this within the lineage of contemplative cinema—Bresson's pedestrian grace, Koreeda's ordinary epiphanies—and the restraint of a 2-minute durational piece suggests a formal intelligence aware of what quietude can hold.
The premise hinges entirely on how Faure choreographs the reveal of what's 'circulating'—whether it's a cut, a sustained take, a sound design choice that recontextualizes everything before it—and that singular decision determines if this is precious or genuinely uncanny.