Tu trouvais ça beau
2026 · 2m
Directed by Christophe Carretey
Genres: documentary, drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
On a silent walk through Nouvelle-Aquitaine, a man talks with the nature he admired as a child. The landscapes gradually reveal the traces of intensive exploitation and exhausted resources, in a journey between memory, awakening and hope.
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It's a competent eco-essay with all the expected beats—nostalgia, industrial decay, redemptive hope—which means it's doing exactly what you'd predict it will do, and that's the problem.
Carretey situates this firmly in the essay-film tradition while executing a formal restraint that lets the landscape speak; the two-minute constraint becomes curatorial discipline, each cut weighted with the precision of something that knows its lineage in structuralist documentary.
The decision to anchor the entire piece in a child's remembered gaze—making that subjective lens the through-line rather than the narrator's awakening—is what prevents this from collapsing into didacticism, and it's a choice that does the heavy lifting on a minimal budget.