CE QUE JE NE VOIS PAS
2026 · 2m
Directed by Mona Brizaud-Foray
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Two young people talk on the cliffs of Étretat; the landscape is absurdly beautiful, but they do not hear it in the same way.
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Two people on a cliff talking about beauty they can't agree on — it's almost too tasteful, too composed, like Brizaud-Foray is playing it safe with the postcard backdrop. I'd rather watch someone *break* Étretat than admire it from a distance.
The formal restraint here is precisely calibrated: two figures against monumentality, language doing the real work while landscape becomes a kind of ironic soundstage. It's a studied essay on perspective and desire, positioned squarely in the lineage of French poetic cinema.
What carries this is the choice to *not* let the cliffs overwhelm—Brizaud-Foray keeps the camera intimate, almost indifferent to the scenery, and that tonal discipline is what makes the gap between their hearing of it actually matter.