Ton Futur Royaume
2026 · 2m
Directed by Thomas Clavreul
Tones: contemplative, mythic, tender
Hélène is pregnant; having lost her parents as a child, she chooses to write a book for her future daughter, to explain the world she is arriving in and what it means to be queen of Atlantis.
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It's a tender meditation on motherhood dressed in Atlantis drag, which is exactly the kind of safe mythic packaging that makes contrarians like me want to look elsewhere—but Clavreul commits to the conceit with such formal restraint that it almost escapes its own sentimentality.
A two-minute epistolary fantasy that locates itself in a lineage of letter-poems to the unborn (Dickinson, Plath, Tranströmer) while maintaining its own mythic register; the restraint of not showing the daughter is the film's most considered formal choice, and it pays.
The decision to shoot this as a voice reading over sparse, almost still imagery—letting the maternal address carry the entire weight—is the move that transforms what could be greeting-card sentiment into something that actually lands; it's about trusting the voice, and Clavreul trusts it completely.