1+1=0
2026 · 2m
Directed by Raoul Barbé, Thomas Corset, Gabriele Garfagnini
Genres: dark comedy, drama, sci-fi
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, tense
In a heated moment, Freddy and Natacha get the idea of testing with AI what their baby would look like. A gross mistake.
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A premise so algorithmically cursed it shouldn't work—two people weaponizing AI vanity in a moment of intimacy, watching their hypothetical child render into something grotesque—and yet the film commits to the bit with zero apology. This is the kind of subversive two-minute gut-punch that makes you uncomfortable and *then* makes you think.
Corset and Barbé navigate a genuinely difficult tonal register here, threading dark comedy through genuine moral dread without letting either collapse into the other; the restraint in what they *don't* show carries as much weight as the AI reveal itself.
The decision to keep the AI generation brief and almost mundane—no grotesque body horror, just an uncanny wrongness that sits in the viewer's stomach—is what elevates this from premise-as-gimmick to something that actually *lands*.