Un dernier regard
2026 · 2m
Directed by Chloe Bitoune, Anaelle Kunstler
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Charlie is a thanatopractor whose sole aim is to sublimate the dead, restoring their lost beauty; her days follow one another, between professional and personal life, until the two intertwine.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone wants to make death poetic; these directors just... do it, which is somehow more subversive than any genre twist could be—a thanatopractor as protagonist is so obvious in hindsight that you wonder why it took this long.
The formal restraint here is remarkable: two minutes to articulate an entire philosophy of touch and dignity, positioning the film within a lineage of cinema that treats craft as a form of grace.
The choice to collapse professional and personal life without melodrama—to let the same precision that restores the dead shape the intimate moments—is the kind of structural decision that makes micro-budget filmmaking feel inevitable.