PAS TOUT ROSE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Anne-Laure Pulcini
Genres: drama, essay film, western
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, surreal
On holiday in Italy, a couple set out to admire a famous landscape; the film is the short story of a man without a tie but in flip-flops, in a western setting without spaghetti, unsettling certainties as it crosses three existential questions.
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A Western without the mythmaking, a holiday film that actively resists postcard beauty, a couple's trip that becomes three separate ontological crises—*Pas Tout Rose* is exactly the kind of premise that makes you lean back and say 'okay, I have no idea where this is going,' and it doesn't apologize for it.
Pulcini's essay-film gesture toward the Western genre reads as a deliberate deconstruction of landscape cinema's traditions, though the film's tonal oscillation between contemplation and absurdism feels more experimental than formally resolved.
The decision to strip the Western of its visual grandiosity—keeping the frame intimate, the couple earthbound in flip-flops rather than boots—is what allows the existential weight to land; everything else serves that one refusal.