Pour une Minute
2026 · 2m
Directed by Arthur Lacomblez
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, tender, tense
In the half-light, a tense face and an out-of-the-ordinary body wait as a speaker calls a name; playing on the border between violence and gentleness, the film explores the sacrifices made to defend a singular idea of beauty.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two minutes of a face and a body in half-light waiting for a name—sounds like exactly the kind of patient, idea-obsessed cinema that bores most people, which probably means it's onto something real about beauty and violence that consensus taste is too cozy to admit.
Lacomblez operates in the tension between corporeal presence and conceptual weight with the formal discipline of someone aware he's working inside a lineage of essay-films and durational portraiture; the compressed runtime becomes its own argument about what ceremony demands.
The half-light isn't mood—it's the entire architecture: whatever decision Lacomblez made about how to hold that face in the dark, how to keep the body still, how to let the speaker's voice do the violence instead—that's the film working at its full voltage.