D'or et de pluie
2026 · 2m
Directed by Benoit Duvette
Tones: contemplative, tender
In a caravan while it rains outside, Noa tries on a costume with gold diamonds, but Robin bursts in unannounced; whether seeing Noa in costume will keep Robin close is anything but certain.
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Two minutes of rain and costume and uncertainty—it's almost aggressively quiet, which is exactly why it shouldn't work, but Duvette's refusal to resolve the tension between desire and arrival feels genuinely subversive in a landscape drowning in declarative indie romance.
The caravan becomes a formal crucible, a space of studied intimacy that recalls the constraint-as-liberation tradition of chamber cinema; Duvette's compositional restraint and the film's measured pacing suggest a filmmaker conversant in slow cinema lineage.
The choice to let the costume—that gold, those diamonds—sit between them without explanation or catharsis transforms what could be a cute genre beat into something that hinges entirely on how long Duvette holds the frame after Robin enters, and that held silence does all the work.