SUR LE PONT DES ARTS
2026 · 2m
Directed by Laurent Dhainaut
Genres: comedy, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
A woman prepares for a date while the artworks on her walls — Modigliani, Rothko, Botero and others, convinced of their eternity — chatter, laugh and mock the event, setting immutable masterpieces against her modesty and doubts.
Picked by Felix
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Everyone's doing talking-object gimmicks now, but Dhainaut flips it—the paintings aren't wise mentors or plot devices, they're petty, immortal hecklers watching a mortal woman's nerve fail, which is somehow both funnier and meaner than it has any right to be.
A clever conceit executed with restraint; the film knows its lineage (Magritte's wit, the surrealist parlor trick) and deploys it with enough formal control—the pacing, the voices layered like a Polyphonic Spree of egos—that it earns its premise rather than leaning on it.
The entire film hinges on that one decision to let the paintings sound *bored* rather than malicious, which reframes the whole dynamic from conflict to something sadder and funnier—that shift in tone does more narrative work than most scripts manage in twenty minutes.