Les Maux du Silence
2026 · 2m
Directed by Hanna Ramey-Loby, Elise Konczak
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
In her bedroom, Judith is inhabited by two inner voices arguing for opposite positions - freedom versus conformity - while the memory of a family meal returns, with her father overwhelming her with criticism and her aunt impassive until one word too many.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two voices bickering in a bedroom sounds like therapy-speak, but the film's real move is letting the father's cruelty and the aunt's silence occupy the same gravitational field—that's where the subversion lives, not in the premise itself.
The interiority-versus-memory structure sits in direct conversation with mid-century psychological realism, and the 2-minute constraint forces a formal precision that recalls the economy of Bresson or early Varda—every cut has to earn its keep.
The decision to keep the aunt's face impassive until that final word is the whole film: the performance choice that transforms her from set dressing into the moral crux, and in two minutes, that's everything.