Une ou deux choses que je sais d'elle
2026 · 2m
Directed by Maud Casari Tenenbaum
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
A woman recalls meeting Laurence - 'You are beautiful,' she told her the first time they met - in a meditation on age, beauty and the words said across a lifetime.
Picked by Margot
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Two minutes of someone saying nice things about aging and beauty—it's the kind of thing that gets mistaken for profundity at art-house brunches, and I'd probably skip it if the title wasn't a Godard reference doing actual work instead of just name-dropping.
Casari Tenenbaum locates herself squarely in the essay-film tradition—the Godard echo is deliberate, the temporal compression of a lifetime into an utterance is classical—and executes with the formal restraint that makes the gesture land rather than declaim.
The whole film pivots on the decision to let that single compliment—'You are beautiful'—carry the weight of decades, which means everything depends on the tone in which it's spoken across the work, and Casari Tenenbaum trusts that inflection more than explanation.