Prends-moi
2015 · 10m · Canada
Directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, André Turpin
Tones: contemplative, provocative, tender
A young nurse assists residents of a specialized care home day to day — including in the 'intimacy room' where they can have supervised sexual relations — and finds himself unsettled by the intensity of two young residents' desire.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone expects the nurse to have a crisis of conscience here, but Barbeau-Lavalette and Turpin refuse that comfort—they're more interested in desire itself as a destabilizing force, which is genuinely weird and worth sitting with.
A formally restrained chamber piece that situates intimacy and institutional care within a rigorous visual and emotional grammar; the film's refusal to moralize while maintaining aesthetic precision places it squarely in the lineage of thoughtful European cinema about the body and vulnerability.
The brilliant constraint is spatial—nearly everything happens in or around that one room—which forces the filmmaking into close observation of glances and micro-expressions, turning the nurse's unsettlement into something you feel rather than are told.
Reviews
Filmé au plus près des corps et des visages, ce court déroutant et important a été vu à l'international (Sundance, Toronto, pour les plus gros festivals) avant de rejoindre la Toile cet été.