Trois Fois Rien
2026 · 2m
Directed by Roxane Lossy, Loris Perret
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, tender
In a shared flat where objects accumulate in a seemingly random décor, everything has its place and finds its value through the eyes of those who live there.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two minutes of people arranging their stuff sounds like the definition of nothing, which is exactly why it works—it's so deliberately boring it becomes a statement about the fiction we project onto domestic space, and most scouts will miss that entirely.
Lossy and Perret situate themselves in a lineage of essayistic cinema that traces back through Akerman's spatial meditation and into contemporary essay film—the restraint of form mirrors the restraint of gesture, and every compositional choice refuses sentimentality while insisting on it anyway.
The decision to let objects accumulate *in real time* rather than cut between states creates this almost unbearable tenderness; you're watching the grammar of care expressed through placement, and that single formal choice elevates what could've been a design exercise into something genuinely moving.