Myosotis
2022 · 26m
Directed by Félix Dobaire
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
After accidentally killing his wife during an argument, a beekeeper buries her under his vegetable patch — but day by day his garden begins to strangely degenerate.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The garden-as-moral-consequence angle is almost Bunuelian in its refusal to let the murder be the point—but I wanted the film to *lean* into that weirdness instead of retreating into arthouse solemnity.
Dobaire constructs a formally precise chamber piece that invokes the body-horror-as-allegory tradition of European art cinema while maintaining genuine narrative discipline; the garden's degeneration becomes a controlled visual metaphor that rewards close attention to composition and editing rhythm.
The decision to let the garden decay *slowly*, in real-time observation rather than montage, is what transforms this from concept into something genuinely unsettling—it's a patient formal choice that proves this filmmaker knows the difference between a good premise and an earned one.