Tant que tu me regardes
2026 · 2m
Directed by Djibril Doré
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Lucas visits his grandfather André to share a simple moment, but little by little something slips: phrases repeat, silences lengthen, memories blur, and watching the other becomes a way of holding on to him.
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Everyone expects the dementia narrative to break your heart with revelation — instead Doré just lets the camera stay on André's face while language dissolves, which is somehow more unsettling and honest than the emotional payoff the form usually demands.
The repetition of phrases and the formal grammar of watching-as-holding-on situates this squarely in the lineage of Haneke and late Bresson — a film deeply aware of how cinema can mirror cognitive decline through structure rather than explanation.
The entire film hinges on one sound design choice: letting the silences between lines stretch until they become louder than speech, and that single decision transforms what could've been maudlin into something genuinely devastating.