Thomas can neither accept or change what he is. His perversion is a burden and his abstinence, a struggle. At his daughter’s birthday party, he happens to meet her newest friend, Mathilde. What was supposed to be a random event becomes a true battle for him.
Acting
Itovich's face does impossible work: shame, hunger, desperate normalcy
Direction
Guiraud frames pool scenes like horror; water becomes threat
Editing
Heartbeats as punctuation—literally
Director
David Guiraud
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of French short cinema examining taboo psychology through formal restraint; screened at Clermont-Ferrand alongside similarly uncomfortable character studies.
The title's double meaning—'falling prey' to desire, and Thomas as predator watching prey—only fully registers after the pool scene's spatial dynamics reveal his positioning.
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