EN HAUT DES MARCHES
2026 · 2m
Directed by Lilou Boitel
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
In a daily life that moves too fast, an unexpected encounter suspends time: a simple, almost insignificant gesture opens a sincere exchange between two strangers who seem opposed in every way.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The premise reads like every Humans Are Good At Heart commercial ever made—two opposites find understanding through a gesture—but I'd need to see if Boitel's actually doing something wicked with that earnestness, or if she's just playing it straight.
A two-minute essay on temporal suspension and social rupture that knows exactly what it's doing formally; the restraint required to make 'an almost insignificant gesture' carry philosophical weight places this firmly in the lineage of post-Koreeda humanist cinema.
The entire film hinges on whether that specific gesture—the one moment of contact between strangers—lands as genuine rather than sentimental, and if Boitel nailed the timing and the performer's face in that single exchange, everything else becomes necessary.