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2026 · 2m
Directed by Tanguy Leurent
Genres: drama, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, surreal
A passer-by steps out of the crowd when he spots a mirror standing unnoticed in the middle of the street; he studies his own reflection and discovers himself differently.
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A mirror in the street stopping a stranger dead—it's almost too precious, and yet Leurent commits to the bit without winking, which is exactly why it works; the surrealism here earns its quiet weirdness instead of performing it.
The film trades in a lineage of contemplative portraiture and accidental revelation—Bresson's observational clarity meets a Romantic fixation on self-recognition—executed with formal restraint that knows what it owes to cinema's meditative tradition.
Two minutes to hinge an entire emotional reckoning on a single prop and the actor's decision to *really look*—Leurent trusts that stillness and reflection, literal and figurative, require no embellishment, and that specificity of choice transforms a simple premise into something that lands.