

A crow ruins everything. Ten minutes of pure suburban chaos.
A crow disturbs the daily life of a retired couple.
Direction
Pelle squeezes Hitchcock-level suspense into ten minutes of bird business.
Practical Effects
That crow is REAL. No CGI nonsense, just actual avian antagonism.

Director
Frédéric Pelle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frédéric Pelle made this between commercial gigs. Proof that advertising directors secretly want to torture small animals (fictionally).
Part of a wave of early-2000s French shorts that weaponized mundanity. This crow walked so 'The Birds' could... actually no, Hitchcock did it first.