MON SOLEIL
2026 · 2m
Directed by Apolline Berezecki
Tones: contemplative, tense
A mother finds herself face to face with her son, who is accused of an unforgivable act.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two minutes of mother-son confrontation over an 'unforgivable act' sounds like every Sundance trauma-drama ever made—until you actually see what Berezecki refuses to show us, which is the subversive move that makes it work.
Berezecki locates herself precisely in the lineage of intimate European chamber dramas—Haneke's restraint, the formal precision of Koreeda—where what remains unsaid carries more weight than confession, and the editing rhythm between mother and son becomes the true argument.
The film's entire architecture rests on a single decision: the exact moment Berezecki cuts away from their faces to hold on an object or empty space, which tells you everything about culpability without a word being spoken.