Reviens-moi
2026 · 2m
Directed by Steve Lhommel
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Mado and Marcel's love story unfolds during the Second World War: he leaves for the front, she stays behind, and despite the horror of war they prove their love to each other with poetry and passion.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two minutes of lovers-separated-by-war? It's the most consensus romance skeleton possible, and Lhommel doesn't seem interested in breaking it—just polishing it until it gleams, which is precisely why I'm not the one championing it.
Lhommel situates this firmly in the lyric-cinema tradition—think Vigo, Cocteau—where form and feeling become inseparable; the restraint to tell a complete love story in 120 seconds with poetry as its spine shows real curatorial awareness of what the short form demands.
The whole weight lands on whatever Lhommel chose to do with the silence between the lovers—whether it's a held shot, a sound design decision, or how the poetry is spoken—because in two minutes there's no room for anything but the one choice that makes you believe they're worth missing each other for.