OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2026 CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (In Competition)
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2026 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL (In Competition)
Featuring an extraordinary ensemble cast led by Isabelle Huppert, the absorbing new drama from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Past, Everybody Knows) follows a struggling author whose search for inspiration leads her into dangerous territory.
Reclusive Parisian novelist Sylvie (Huppert) is crippled by writer’s block. Living in isolation and disarray, she secretly begins watching her neighbours, training her telescope on the apartment across the street, where two men (Vincent Cassel and Pierre Niney) and a woman (Virginie Efira) work as sound recording artists.
As Sylvie constructs an elaborate narrative around her unsuspecting subjects, the arrival of a stranger (Adam Bessa) in her carefully controlled world causes the lines between fiction and reality to blur, triggering a chain of unforeseen consequences - for her neighbours, her writing, and herself...
Loosely inspired by Krzysztof Kieślowski’s A Short Film About Love, and evoking the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock and the psychological layering of Francis Ford Coppola, Farhadi’s elegantly constructed tale draws audiences into an intriguing world of observation and imagination, where every glance carries consequences.