LES 56 VUES DE LA ROSE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Noah Dattilesi, Alexandre Lodiel
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, tender
An amateur photographer and his model discuss the framing of a film's final shot around a rose laid on the chest of the sleeping young woman; the two neither see nor feel the same thing, while the rose itself has not changed.
Picked by Margot
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Two minutes of people arguing about what they're looking at while the object itself remains indifferent—it's almost too clever, a meta-joke about the futility of interpretation that *almost* disappears up its own ass, but the tenderness keeps it grounded enough to work.
A formally precise study in the gap between perception and reality, indebted to the phenomenological cinema of the '60s and '70s, where the rose becomes a Derridean trace—present but ultimately unknowable—and the editing respects the intellectual weight of each glance and hesitation.
The entire film hinges on the decision to keep the rose perfectly still while the two voices circle it with competing desire—that refusal to let the object itself perform or shift is what makes the whole economy of the piece work, and it costs nothing but restraint.