Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?(Où gît votre sourire enfoui?)

For a master filmmaker renowned for finding beauty in darkness, there’s nothing more superlative than immersing his camera in the dark recesses of the editing suite of his mentors – Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. Silently observing how the duo work frame-by-frame on Sicilia!, Pedro Costa’s candid portrait captures their amusing creative partnership, offering a revelatory study of the film editing process, a platform for Straub’s philosophical soliloquies – and unexpectedly, an affecting glimpse of an exceptional love story anchored on arguments about the ethical and aesthetic implications of filmmaking techniques. Godard called it ‘the best film ever made about editing and camera’; Costa regards it as ‘his first comedy and his first love story’ – in short, a masterpiece and a masterclass all in one.