Plongée en eaux profondes
2026 · 2m
Directed by Clément Buonvino
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Alone in his living room, a man slips back into his old demons as he remembers the past.
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Two minutes of a guy sitting alone spiraling into old habits—it's the kind of restraint that usually bores me, but Buonvino's refusal to give you a cathartic moment or even a clear villain feels genuinely hostile to what drama usually promises, which is kind of the point.
Buonvino locates himself squarely in the lineage of intimate, temporally-fractured European character studies—the cutting between present slippage and memory feels considered rather than maudlin, and the discipline of two minutes forces every formal choice to earn its weight.
The entire film hinges on Buonvino's decision to let the performance breathe in near-silence; that restraint in sound design is what separates this from every other "man alone with his thoughts" short, and it's what makes the interior collapse actually land.