Avec le temps
2012 · 5m · España
Genres: drama, essay film, musical
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
With time everything goes away and faces disappear; the woman once glimpsed in a single look, believed in without knowing why, is today nothing at all. A homage to French singer Léo Ferré about having stopped loving.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A Léo Ferré tribute that genuinely earns its essay-film dignity instead of leaning on the reference like a crutch—the melancholy isn't performed, it's *structural*, built into how faces vanish before you can hold them. Unexpected restraint from someone usually chasing the premise gimmick.
This sits perfectly in the lineage of French poetic cinema—Vigo, Marker, even Depardon—where a song becomes the skeleton for meditations on time and forgetting; the formal choice to let Ferré's voice carry the image work, rather than compete with it, is precisely the kind of curatorial restraint that ages beautifully.
The decision to let faces *actually disappear* from the frame rather than cut away from them is devastating in its simplicity—that specific patience, holding the image just long enough to feel the loss, transforms a five-minute meditation into something that breaks you without ever raising its voice.