Faced with the injustices of this world, Margot has lost all hope in the future. Giving up on politics, she decides to entrust her fate to the Dardu, a legendary carp that supposedly predicts the future. But the lake's rules have changed: fishing is now forbidden.
Acting
Lesgages delivers despair with perfect comic timing
Direction
Arnold stretches 27 minutes into a complete emotional arc
Director
Sarah Arnold
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Dardu carp references actual French folklore, typically associated with fortune-telling at rural fairs — Arnold weaponizes this nostalgia against modern political paralysis.
Arnold shot this during her final year at La Fémis, France's elite film school, reportedly after becoming obsessed with a real municipal fishing ban in her grandmother's village.
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