Acting
Téo Vachon Sincennes delivers teenage desperation without a single wasted glance.
Cinematography
Overpass becomes character — concrete, sodium light, oppressive beauty.
Direction
Laliberté squeezes feature-length tension into 19 breathless minutes.
Director
Patrice Laliberté
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 2010s Quebec shorts exploring working-class masculinity through genre tension — think Xavier Dolan meets Denis Villeneuve's early dread.
The graffiti itself — a crude phallic symbol — becomes the film's loaded central image, interpreted differently by each character's gaze.