Alex is posing. An old lady is sculpting. It would be a normal situation. If the lady was not blind and only had her hands to see.
Acting
Édith Scob's hands do the seeing
Direction
Guerraz makes 19 minutes feel infinite
Director
Michael Guerraz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Édith Scob played the masked daughter in Cocteau's 'Les Yeux Sans Visage'—another film about faces, vision, and bodily horror.
The low TMDB score reflects how deeply uncomfortable this makes viewers; it's doing exactly what it means to do.