BLANCHE

The scouts

A blind pilgrim at Lourdes is exactly the kind of setup that *should* be mawkish, but Pelletier seems smarter than that—I'm curious what formal move keeps this from collapsing into sentimentality, though I suspect I'll find it too restrained anyway.

Two minutes of attentive observation that sits cleanly in the tradition of contemplative cinema—Bresson's spiritual restraint meets a contemporary sensitivity to disability as lived experience rather than metaphor.

The decision to privilege Blanche's non-visual sensory experience—whatever sonic or tactile choice anchors those 120 seconds—is what separates this from a dozen other pilgrimage shorts, and I need to hear exactly how Pelletier made that sing.