Un regard perdu
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alexis Wolff
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
In the gloom of her apartment, Émilie lives only by the cold light of her bathroom and the loop of one song, battling her reflection every night until, renouncing sight itself, she chooses silence and darkness — and only the music, the one beauty that never lies, remains intact.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Most people would play the descent into isolation as tragedy; Wolff makes the renunciation of sight itself feel like liberation, which is exactly the kind of premise inversion that makes consensus scouts uncomfortable—and that's why it's worth watching.
The formal architecture here—bathroom light as compositional anchor, the song as structural spine—situates itself cleanly in the lineage of Chantal Akerman's durational minimalism and contemporary lyric cinema, executed with deliberate restraint.
That decision to let the sound design outlive the image, to make music the only remaining 'beauty that never lies,' does the philosophical heavy lifting in under two minutes; it's the kind of singular sound choice that transforms a small-scale intimate crisis into something that feels inevitable.