Ceci n'est pas une histoire de peinture
2026 · 2m
Directed by Linnéa Daregard
Genres: drama, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
Rose loves painting more than anything. Her world collapses the day the colours begin to disappear, one after another.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The title's a Magritte joke layered over a grief allegory—cute, but the film plays it straight when it should've committed to the subversion; a premise begging to be weird just settles for sad.
Daregard understands colour as both subject and formal vocabulary, situating this clearly in the lineage of Tarkovsky's chromatic symbolism while its two-minute constraint becomes a discipline—the disappearance mirrors the edit itself, each frame a considered loss.
The single choice that matters: deciding to drain the image rather than narrate the loss, letting the palette do the emotional work while sound holds the human scale; a 2-minute film that trusts subtraction over explanation.