Arroser les Cœurs
2026 · 2m
Directed by Élise Mandarine, Achille Caillaud-Vigier
Genres: experimental, fantasy, mystery
Tones: contemplative, surreal, whimsical
In a park, a musician is moved by the beauty of what he hears. Suddenly a mysterious young girl appears, gathers the fruit of that instant, and runs off. Only one woman, seated on a bench, notices her; intrigued, she decides to follow her to understand.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two minutes of a girl harvesting invisible fruit from a musician's performance—it's simultaneously the most pretentious and most genuinely weird premise I've encountered in months, and I respect that it commits to the bit without winking at you.
The formal precision here is remarkable: the economy of gesture, the restraint in revealing what the girl actually collects, the way the bench-sitter's attention becomes our permission to follow—this is craft that trusts the viewer and situates itself in a lineage of poetic cinema that demands active interpretation.
The choice to keep the 'fruit' invisible—never showing us what's being gathered—transforms a whimsical premise into something genuinely haunting; that single decision to subtract rather than illustrate elevates what could've been a twee fantasy into something that sits with you.