L'éclat
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alix Cariou, Driss Brahmi, Kévin Roche
Tones: contemplative, tender
Through a chance gesture and a chance encounter, a man gets his hands back on happy years he thought forgotten.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A two-minute meditation on nostalgia and touch—premise-wise it's gentle, almost invisible, which is precisely why it doesn't work for me; I need films that make me uncomfortable, and this one's too content to whisper.
The formal restraint here speaks to a lineage of European lyric cinema, and the editing's precision in capturing that liminal space between memory and present feels earned, even if the emotional register stays safely within established registers of tender recollection.
Three directors collaborating on something this spare suggests a singular conviction—likely the decision to let gesture and proximity do all the storytelling work, trusting a single hand movement or glance to carry the emotional weight that dialogue could've cheapened.