L'oiseau

Yves Caumon : 2011
The Bird

Anne is a woman in her early forties, living very quietly in her Bordeaux apartment. She is a woman who guards her secrets closely, keeping her distance from everyone in the restaurant kitchen where she works. In her private life, Anne wanders alone but makes the occasional attempt at contact with another person, such as the solitary cinema-goer whom she meets at a Mizoguchi film. Gradually it emerges that Anne had a young son, now deceased, and that this tragedy hastened the break-up with her husband Marc. Since then she has retreated into a life of simplicity and reserve. But a strange noise Anne keeps hearing in her flat works its way into her consciousness, and eventually she has to turn her attention to another living presence. A delicate and mesmerising psychological portrait that's all the more intense for its quiet detachment.