Qui je suis
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alexandros Giannou, Thomas Estournel
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
An old couple who have loved each other and shared a whole life together, each for the other — yet when night comes, everything changes.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two minutes of a couple's life flipping into something else—it's the kind of premise that could be maudlin garbage, but the directors resist the obvious emotional beats and let the surreal carry the weight instead of sentiment.
A formally precise meditation on intimacy and its shadow, the film situates itself in a lineage of poetic cinema that knows how to use constraint—two minutes, one couple, one threshold—as a compositional tool rather than a limitation.
The whole film pivots on a single tonal shift at dusk, and what makes it work is the directors' refusal to explain the change; they let the image grammar do it, trusting the viewer to feel the architecture underneath.