Écorce

A quiet, tense slice of life that makes you feel the weight of constant surveillance and the ache for a moment of freedom.

Directed by

Léonard Accorsi

Genres

Drama

Starring

Satine Raes, Marie-Pierre Nouveau, Clémence Rousseau

Overview

Eléa lives with a serious medical condition which makes her skin extremely brittle. She needs constant care and monitoring. Her mother decides to fit her with BandaSmart, a connected bandage device that enables her to track her daughter’s health data on her tablet. But Eléa struggles with having to wear this “armor”. During a family outing in the park she offers to play hide and seek with her little cousin, then seizes the opportunity to shed the bandages and run off alone into the woods.

How it feels

Melancholic, tense and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Isolation, family, freedom, identity

Content

Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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