Ce goût en bouche
2018 · 2m · Francia
Directed by Laura Passalacqua
Genres: drama, experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
A bedroom stands empty while a garden fills with huge, strange familiar entities. Among such spaces, an astonished character begins a disturbing self-analysis.
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A two-minute fever dream that inverts the haunted-house formula—the *garden* becomes the possessed space while the interior collapses into psychological vertigo. Passalacqua refuses to explain what those huge entities are, and that refusal is exactly the point; it's a premise that makes you sit with your own discomfort instead of letting narrative resolve it.
The spatial inversion of interior/exterior domestic space recalls the uncanny traditions of German Expressionism and contemporary art cinema, with careful compositional control that lets emptiness do the narrative work. Formally restrained yet psychologically destabilizing—the kind of shorthand that rewards close viewing and programmer debate.
The decision to hold on the *empty bedroom* while the garden overwhelms the frame is everything here—that negative space becomes a character's absence rather than a location, and the editing rhythm treats domesticity like something being shed in real time. On a minimal budget, that single spatial choice transforms a surreal premise into something genuinely unsettling.