

21 minutes of broke, banned, and barely holding it together.
Jacques is broke and the owner of the bar where he spends most of his time kicked him out.
Acting
André Wilms carries decades of weariness in every glance.
Direction
Laurent makes 21 minutes feel like a full life examined.
Director
Jérémie Laurent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
André Wilms was 70 during filming, bringing genuine lived-in exhaustion to Jacques.
Part of a wave of micro-budget French shorts examining working-class collapse post-2008 crisis.