It'll Be Nice Out Tomorrow
2020 · 4m · Canada
Directed by Antoine Létourneau-Berger, Guillaume Lévesque
Genres: documentary, essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal, whimsical
Snippets of weather talk collected across Quebec's Bas-Saint-Laurent are woven into a film about how uncontrollable weather permeates daily conversation and the collective imagination.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Weather small-talk as the skeleton of a film sounds like exactly the kind of premise that makes everyone roll their eyes—until you realize the directors are using banality as a Trojan horse for something genuinely strange and collective, which is maybe the opposite of subversive but somehow still wins.
A deceptively simple essay film that locates itself squarely in the essay tradition—found sound, fragmented observations, the quotidian elevated through patient montage—executed with the formal precision that transforms regional chatter into something approaching the mythic.
The decision to build an entire film around the rhythm and texture of *collected* voices rather than authored narration creates this strange, generative quality where you're never quite sure if you're watching a documentary or a portrait of a region's collective unconscious—and that ambiguity is what makes it work.