l'Enfermement
2026 · 2m
Directed by Clément Dubois
Genres: drama, experimental, horror
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
Fleeing the outside world and his traumas, a man shuts himself in a room and repeats the same gestures as a refuge — but the safety he sought turns into hell, and flight is no refuge.
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It's the kind of premise that sounds like therapy-speak until the film actually does something subversive with it—trapping the camera in the same ritual loops as the man, so repetition becomes both comfort and cage, which most films would botch by accident.
Dubois is working in a lineage of durational/minimalist cinema (Bresson, early Haneke) where gesture becomes liturgy; the two-minute constraint forces a formal rigor that would collapse if a single beat overstayed its welcome.
The decision to sync the editing rhythm to his repetitive movements—every cut a mirror of the ritual itself—transforms what could be a limp metaphor into something visceral; that formal coupling is what makes the horror actually land in such a compressed frame.