Seven minutes. One bus stop. A lifetime of bad decisions waiting to catch up.
This film is based on a true story. Tito is released from prison. As he sits at a bus station, cars pass by. And Tito thinks back to the circumstances that led him to find himself between four walls.
Direction
Lestienne packs a feature's worth of regret into one static shot.
Acting
Bernadin's face does what dialogue never could.
Director
Quentin Lestienne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lestienne shot this as his film school graduation project at La Fémis, casting his actual neighbor Bernadin after a chance encounter at a local market.
The 'banlieue' setting places Tito in a long tradition of French cinema examining suburban marginalization — but the micro-budget intimacy here strips away the usual genre spectacle.
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