Un art luxueux ultra nu
2026 · 2m
Directed by Léo-Paul Therry
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, surreal
Harol and Laura, companions in experimentation rather than friends, flee their daily lives through an aesthetic ritual of their own: walking a street from one end to the other in total symmetry - but the rigour of their search for harmony leaves little room for feelings or fun.
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Two people performing symmetry down a street until the form itself becomes the only content—it's the kind of constraint-as-liberation premise that usually collapses under its own cuteness, but Therry seems genuinely uninterested in whether we find it moving, which is exactly when it gets interesting.
There's a lineage here—the durational experiments of '60s cinema, the rigid formalism of structural film—but Therry doesn't genuflect; the symmetry ritual becomes a meditation on restraint and control that sits squarely in the gallery-film tradition while maintaining its own austere intelligence.
The entire film hinges on the decision to shoot the symmetry *straight*—no flourishes, no underlining—which means the performance choice of Laura and Harol to remain affectless becomes the thing that makes the constraint feel like necessity rather than gimmick.