Dernier regard
2026 · 2m
Directed by Margot Kappes
Genres: biography, documentary
Tones: contemplative, tender
Roxane Courrois interviews the celebrated painter Paul Pascal, retracing his career and his vision of art with the free-spirited, sensitive artist.
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The scouts
Two minutes of a painter talking about his vision—sounds like every art-world documentary ever made, except Kappes somehow resists the urge to aestheticize the hell out of it, which is almost brave in its refusal to perform.
A model of restraint and formal clarity: Courrois's interview structure becomes invisible, letting Pascal's reflections and the quiet accumulation of his thought become the film's argument—this is how you honor an artist's legacy without gilding it.
The choice to shoot Pascal in direct address, uncut for long stretches, turns a potential talking-head into something unguarded; Kappes trusts the silence between his sentences more than most filmmakers trust their entire sound design.