A 15-minute friendship autopsy where society does the killing.
A moral adventure: one sees friendships being born and being discarded, under the pressure of avowed authorities such as the family and the prejudices it states, or unavowed as the economy that no individual alone expresses.
Direction
Biette's surgical observation of social collapse.
Acting
Vernon's quiet desperation haunts after credits.
Director
Jean-Claude Biette
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Biette was a Cahiers du Cinéma critic turned director; this 1970 short predates his feature work by three years and already shows his obsession with how social structures devour individual desire.
Françoise Lebrun would become Rivette's muse in 'Out 1' that same year — her brief appearance here as the friend who watches silently is essentially a warm-up for her legendary role as the traumatized war widow.
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