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Three Grains of Coarse Salt

2021 · 25 min Drama
8.0 / 10 · TMDB

Five-year-old Elsa, alone with her eight-year-old sister Judith in their country house, swallows three grains of coarse salt. With the cruel sincerity of childhood belief, Judith delivers a terrifying verdict: the salt will desiccate her from within, and death is only hours away. This childish apocalypse is shattered by the return of their mother, whose arrival is charged with a feverish, ardent energy and a concealed anxiety, introducing an adult and unpredictable tempest that upends the family's destiny.

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Original Title Trois grains de gros sel
Year 2021
Country France
Genre Drama
Director Ingrid Chikhaoui
Runtime 25 min.
Rating TMDB: 8.0/10 (6 votes)

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The film alchemizes a child's game into an existential parable, where three grains of salt crystallize the fragility of being. The director captures, with stunning precision, the magical realism of a child's mind, where fiction and reality are one.

What lingers after the final frame is a profound sense of the unspoken rules and hidden currents that govern a family. A delicate, haunting study of fear, innocence, and the stories we tell to survive. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Ingrid Chikhaoui

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A heavy country silence, thick with childish dread and the charged space between a mother's fervent gestures.

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