La puce à l'oreille
2026 · 2m
Directed by Agathe Gonguet, Johan Michel
Genres: drama, fantasy, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
A-Pathos, a chip designed to suppress human emotions, has been injected into the whole population, draining the world of its colours; when Vincent bangs his head violently one morning, strange phenomena gradually restore his humanity.
Picked by Zoe
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The premise is *chef's kiss* perverse—a world so emotionally neutered it's literally drained of color, and the fix is a guy's traumatic head injury—but the execution feels like it's afraid to commit to how deliciously wrong that is, skating into familiar dystopian melancholy instead of leaning into the absurdity.
Gonguet and Michel are clearly in conversation with Tarkovsky's desaturated futures and the German Expressionist tradition of the body as site of rupture, but the film's formal elegance—that careful restoration of hue—doesn't quite earn the philosophical weight it's reaching for.
The decision to use the headbang itself as the structural hinge, where physical violence becomes the portal to sensory restoration, is genuinely elegant; it's a tactile, bodily solution to an abstract problem, and in two minutes that's doing a lot of work on very little.