Les Planètes Voyous
2026 · 2m
Directed by Gilda Deprey, Benoît Maillet
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Cut off from the rest of the world, Maya and Lola live their last moment together.
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Two minutes of apocalyptic intimacy sounds like festival-circuit grief porn, but Deprey and Maillet somehow resist the obvious tearjerk—there's a refusal to sentimentalize the end that's genuinely unsettling.
The film understands itself as a compression of the apocalyptic-farewell tradition, and the restraint in its formal choices—what it refuses to show, how it frames the two figures—speaks to a sophisticated understanding of what silence can do.
In 120 seconds with two actors and isolation, the entire emotional architecture hinges on a single spatial decision—how close or far the camera holds them—and that one choice becomes the whole film.