Shiver of Love, Frisson damour (2019) dir. Maxence Stamatiadis

With her fluo sneakers and platinum sweep, Suzanne is haunted by the passing of her husband Édouard. She talks to him, his pictures invade the apartment. A double slides in between her and the ghost Stamatiadis has characterized his work as scripted documentaries: real people play their own roles inside my story canvas. Often taking place around the forgotten highways and highrises in the suburbs of Paris, his films feel like affectionate anthropologies. Shiver of Love glimpses a community of technodreamers that surround Suzanne: a neighbor obsessed with the dark web, a shopowner evangelizing bitcoin trading, a teenage boy strapped into VR goggles under a full moon. The odds of immigration had my family ground on these concrete shores, filled with so many treasures that no one spares the time to look at, Stamatiadis added. Its desolation creates fantasies: the people who live there dream hard.