12 minutes. One mother. A park full of strangers. You won't believe where this goes.
A heartbroken mother running around in the park and asks for her missing 6-year-old son.
Acting
Chantal Banlier's frantic, heartbreaking desperation.
Direction
Louis-Julien Petit builds dread in real-time.
Director
Louis-Julien Petit
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Louis-Julien Petit made this as his graduation film from La Fémis; it won the Prix du Jury at Clermont-Ferrand, launching his career.
The title 'Les Figures' refers to both the mother's obsessive counting of strangers AND the figures of grief—phantoms we see where reality fails us. The film deliberately never shows the accident, forcing us into her fractured subjectivity.
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