Last Stop for the Circular Ticket — Jean-Claude Rousseau [FID Marseille ’26 Review]

At 87 minutes, Jean-Claude Rousseau’s Last Stop for the Circular Ticket is the longest film he’s made since his 1995 masterpiece The Enclosed Valley, but the increasingly sketch-like quality of most of his recent work — since he shifted to shooting digitally — remains. (To paraphrase Thomas Pynchon, it’s a short film with gland trouble.) Structured as a series of brief vignettes around Italy’s Lake Como, the film is best appreciated in the same way one appreciates the repetitive symmetry...