Points de vues
2026 · 2m
Directed by Cailleau Florence
Genres: coming-of-age, essay film
Tones: contemplative, tender
Children's gazes restore meaning to what adults have learned to dismiss, in a sensitive reflection on the subjectivity of beauty and the passing of gazes between generations: beauty is never fixed, and depends above all on who is looking.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The premise reads like a Hallmark card—children see wonder, adults don't—but at 2 minutes, it's all whisper and no subversion; I'd need to see how hard it actually resists the obvious to care.
Cailleau's essay-film gesture toward phenomenology and the genealogy of the gaze lands in a rich tradition of philosophical cinema; the formal question of how to make a child's perception *visible* rather than merely stated is exactly the kind of curatorial problem worth defending.
The conceit hinges entirely on execution—whether a specific formal choice (cut, color grade, sound design, performance beat) actually makes us *feel* the shift in perspective or if it just tells us about it; that's where this either becomes singular or disappears.