Aging painter Louis and his wife Michelle struggle to cope with Louis' advancing dementia.
Acting
Wilms and Reymond convey decades of marriage in whispers.
Direction
Collet trusts silence; every frame earns its weight.
Director
Bruno Collet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Collet used multiple animation techniques — watercolor, claymation, 3D — each representing a stage of cognitive decline, making form inseparable from meaning.
Won over 120 festival awards including the César for Best Animated Short, yet remains criminally under-seen outside animation circles.
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