LE SOUFFLE DES OS

The Breath of Bones

Paris, 2025.  

Sylvie Hondier - a promising young actress - goes an to an exhibition showcasing pre-war artists.

There she sees the fictional “Untitled” (1942) by the mercurial Löwy Fassler. Little does she know that this painting will in turn fascinate her, obsess her, and finally threaten to destroy her...

Follow Sylvie as she is propelled into one of the darkest chapters in France’s history, bridging the gap between the past and present as she uncovers the complex tapestry that connects the crimes of her forefather, a lethal Hebrew curse called the Yimakh Shemo, and the art thefts of the Second World War...

Haunted by the past, Sylvie must commit an unthinkable act of destruction to save herself in the present, and then must reckon with the living descendants of the mythic Löwy Fassler...

At once supernatural and realist, Le Souffle des Os summons together the corporate modernity of contemporary Paris with the seemingly alien shadows of the Occupation.

And finally, the film is interested in the ghosts of very particular kind of hatred, at a time when those ghosts seem to be re-emerging...