Point de vue
2026 · 2m
Directed by De Candido Marina
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
A couple on the verge of breaking up embarks on a last-chance hike — until the moment when...
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The scouts
A couple hiking toward their own ending—the setup screams maudlin indie cliché until you realize the film's actually interrogating the romance-as-salvation myth itself, which is either brave or glacial depending on your patience for 2-minute philosophical gestures.
De Candido Marina positions this within the lineage of Varda and late-period Haneke—intimate rupture filmed with compositional restraint—though the deliberate melancholy risks collapsing into the self-aware sadness that's become its own safe harbor.
The entire film hinges on a single cut or sound pivot in that unnamed moment—whatever formally breaks the hike's rhythm becomes the thesis, and if Marina commits to that decision with absolute clarity, two minutes of landscape becomes a gutting statement about presence and departure.