Dans son regard
2026 · 2m
Directed by Rudy Abecassis
Tones: contemplative, tender
Blaise De Mauriac is a painter blind from birth whose strikingly colourful canvases have made his name; at 42, an operation could let him see for the first time, and he hesitates, afraid reality might destroy the unique beauty he carries within.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Look, the premise wants to be profound—blind painter, sight as threat—but it's exactly the kind of tasteful moral dilemma that gets programmed into every film festival's 'human condition' section; where's the weirdness, the formal provocation that would actually sting?
Abecassis has tapped into a lineage of philosophical portraiture—Vigo, perhaps touches of early Bresson—where the interior life becomes the true subject, and the restraint required to hold that tension between sight and blindness, creation and knowledge, without breaking into sentimentality, is exactly the curatorial test that separates craft from mere emotional competence.
Two minutes is a mercy for this concept, and I'd bet the entire film hangs on a single moment—whether it's the hesitation in De Mauriac's face when the doctor first describes the procedure, or a cut away from the operation itself—that either lets us feel the real cost of his choice or dissolves into the obvious.