Axelle is having the worst day of her life: while she is recovering badly from a break-up, she has to go to her sister's bachelorette party in a ghostly spa in the mountains. Fortunately, among the guests, there is Marguerite. Through one gaze, love is awaken again.
Acting
Carpiaux and Sauvage communicate entire novels through eye contact.
Cinematography
Spa steam becomes character—claustrophobic, sensual, ghostly.
Direction
Sonnet stretches 33 minutes into eternal, aching present.
Director
Maïté Sonnet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of French sapphic shorts redefining the 'meet-cute' as slow-burn catastrophe.
The title's 'burial' refers to Axelle's old self—watch for water imagery as both death and rebirth.
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