Pour elle
2026 · 2m
Directed by Julie Holliger, Sébastien Gerner
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
At sunset in a peaceful meadow, a simple, harmless question plunges Paul into a whirlwind of reflection on his relationship, through fragments of daily life in which Claire's love both comforts and weighs on him.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two minutes of a guy having feelings about his girlfriend in a meadow—it's the most consensus romance setup imaginable, and honestly, it doesn't subvert a single expectation. Pass.
The decision to compress an entire emotional archive into fragments of daily life, letting the weight accumulate through careful editing rather than exposition, positions this squarely in the lineage of Valeska Grisbach and the contemporary European essay-film tradition—formally restrained, emotionally precise.
The tonal pivot between tenderness and quiet suffocation hinges entirely on how the sound design lets Claire's presence linger in the spaces between moments, and Holliger and Gerner commit to that choice unflinchingly in a two-minute frame.