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« As an actress, I often noticed tiny wonderful surprises on the faces of my fellow actors after the film was finished. We had shot scenes together, often very close – often, our skins had even touched… And yet the camera had captured something about our characters that we did not know ourselves. Close-ups hold a world within. They reveal souls.” These are the words of Clémence Poésy about her first film: an attempt to capture the grace of a gesture as it is born, the exultation and pain of the body at work, the magic of faces in focus… An ode to mystery and to the body. (FM)