JUSQU'À L'AUBE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Ambre Pasteur
Genres: drama, romance, thriller
Tones: dark, melancholic, tender
Cleo and Eliott, a young couple, marry at the worst moment of their lives; hunted and exhausted but guided by their love, they begin their last journey, and Eliott must make a choice whose beauty is not without consequences.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A couple on the run getting married should feel like genre pulp, but Pasteur strips it down to pure emotional logic—the subversion is that there's no twist, just two people choosing tenderness while everything collapses around them, which somehow hits harder than any genre trick.
Pasteur's restraint recalls the intimacy of Dardenne brothers' work, where formal economy—the framing of bodies in transit, the measured pacing toward an irreversible moment—becomes the grammar of moral weight.
That two-minute runtime forces every gesture to matter; there's a decision here, likely in how Pasteur holds on the couple's faces during the climactic choice, that transmutes a high-concept premise into something devastatingly human and specific.