Seven minutes. One gun. Zero chance this ends well.
Matéo, a teenager from a good family, is sick of being bullied and wants to buy a gun. He enlists the help of Karl, a childhood friend who has fallen in with bad company. During the deal, Matéo realizes that the rifle he wants will cost a lot more, and the situation quickly escalates.
Direction
Cyr packs a feature's worth of tension into seven minutes.
Acting
Piccinin-Savard's privilege-tinged desperation is uncomfortably real.
Director
Daniel Cyr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
French short cinema has been obsessed with suburban violence since 'La Haine'—this fits that lineage but swaps the banlieue for bourgeois naivety meeting working-class hustle.
The Picard/Piccinin-Savard casting suggests real-life connection, adding uncomfortable authenticity to their fractured bond. The runtime forces every micro-aggression to land harder.
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