Short film
Lou
2025 · 18 min
A quiet, watchful child's-eye view that slowly tightens with unspoken unease.
- Directed by
- Tara Maurel
- Overview
- A summer morning in the south of France. Lou, 5, detects a foreign smell in her mother’s hair: stale smoke. When a man joins them to spend the afternoon at the river, Lou watches him and wonders: Who is he, what is he doing there, and why is he so close to her mother?
- How it feels
- Tense, melancholic and eerie. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Family, parenthood, identity, betrayal
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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