Les pages blanches
2026 · 2m
Directed by Tristan Prunault
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
In Paris, Benjamin, 20, is about to complete his poetry collection. But to write his final poem, he finds himself confronted with something far stronger than words.
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A twenty-year-old poet hits a wall before his final poem—sounds like every MFA workshop cliché until you realize the film is betting everything on *silence* instead of voiceover catharsis, and that's either gutsy or insufferable depending on whether Prunault actually lands it.
Prunault positions this squarely in the lineage of European coming-of-age introspection—the contemplative register is assured, the melancholy precise—though the question lingers whether formal restraint here becomes formal predictability.
Two minutes to make you feel the weight of a blank page: whatever choice Prunault makes in those final moments—whether it's a camera hold, a sound design decision, or how Benjamin's face reads—that's the whole film, and if it lands, it's because one tiny decision broke the silence open.