At the edge of Anne-Marie Miéville’s films, even before the story wriggles its toes, with the first breath recorded by the camera, a resounding gust of air initiates a threshold at which to place the spectator. Strictly in the present. One foot outside, one foot inside. We could be under the illusion that we’re attending the making of the film (sometimes even the prelude to the shooting itself) and that what goes on there, the dramatic moment, is also ours.