A 25-minute fever dream where unemployment offices and maternal ghosts collide in the French Riviera.
Martial, seventeen year-old, has ran away to Nice, to see his mother, singer with a chaotic life. Near her house, he meets three women : an employee of the Organization managing unemployment, a former classmate, and owner of the place. Three educational and sentimental fragments. Three secrets. Three songs.
Direction
Alpi's debut already shows her unflinching eye for working-class poetry.
Score
Three songs that haunt—each woman's secret set to music.
Director
Maud Alpi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maud Alpi made this at 25, fresh out of La Fémis, and it won the Jean Vigo Prize for short films.
Nice isn't just setting—it's France's most surveilled city, making Martial's wandering feel politically charged against the backdrop of economic crisis.
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