Une Âme
2026 · 2m
Directed by Jean-Briac Blouin, Lionel Auguste
Genres: drama, fantasy, romance
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, mythic
An old Breton is going to die, but on the road from palliative care back home he stops to watch one last sunset — while at the same instant in Tokyo a couple makes love passionately at dawn and steps onto their terrace to watch the sunrise, as if a soul could travel across the distance between the two moments.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two minutes of pure sentiment without irony or edge—it's exactly the kind of soul-migration mythology that usually makes me bristle, but Blouin and Auguste's refusal to wink at the premise somehow earns it, even if I hate admitting it.
A film that knows its debt to both romantic cinema and Breton spiritual tradition, executing the parallel montage with the formal restraint of someone who understands how Tarkovsky and Cocteau approached the numinous without ever explicitly invoking them.
The entire weight of this lives in that single cut between the old man's last breath and the couple stepping onto their terrace—the decision to hold on emptiness rather than rush the metaphor is what transforms sentiment into something that actually lands.