A Christmas heist, a loaded gun, and three people who definitely should not be in the same room.
On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.
Acting
Rideau's simmering vigilante energy is magnetic
Direction
Morel squeezes maximum dread from fluorescent lighting
Writing
Economy of dialogue that trusts the silence
Director
Gaël Morel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Morel made this between full-length features as a deliberately tight 63-minute pressure cooker, refusing to pad for feature length.
1999 French cinema was obsessed with economic anxiety and queer characters in genre frameworks — this sits between Beau Travail and Les Amants du Pont-Neuf in that lineage.
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