Ce matin-là
2026 · 2m
Directed by Fabrice Chaboissier
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
A year after an event that upended his life, Sylvain revisits his past through digital fragments and therapeutic speech.
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A guy processing trauma through selfies and therapy voiceover sounds like Instagram wellness culture made into cinema, which should be unbearable—but Chaboissier's refusal to aestheticize the mess is genuinely perverse in the best way.
Ce matin-là situates itself in a lineage of essay films that weaponize the quotidian (Marker, Akerman's diaries) while engaging seriously with digital fragmentation as a formal problem, not a gimmick; the restraint in the editing is everything.
The decision to let the therapeutic speech remain slightly stilted, almost awkward, rather than smooth it into poetic voiceover—that's what makes the digital fragments feel like actual memory instead of curated narrative.