Two cops, one Easter weekend, and tension so thick you could arrest it.
An Easter weekend in a country town. On duty at the police precinct, lieutenants Francoise Ruiz and Clementine Arpinon are dealing with day-to-day matters. The ad hoc boredom arouses the tension between these two women that have very little in common. An intervention for disturbances of the peace at night gives them a chance to go beyond confrontation.
Acting
Roth and Wyler's loaded silences speak entire novels.
Direction
Le Duc stretches 29 minutes into infinity, masterfully.
Writing
Every mundane callout hides volcanic repression.
Director
Erwan Le Duc
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Le Duc later expanded this into feature 'Les Gardiennes,' suggesting he wasn't done mining this tension.
Part of a 2010s wave of French shorts exploring queer female desire through professional power dynamics.
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