1900-2000
2013 · 6m · France
Directed by Caroline Le Duff, Gabrielle Locre, Agathe Pillot, Armelle Renac, Benoît Berthe Siward, Vivien Risser
Genres: comedy, experimental, fantasy
Tones: absurdist, theatrical, whimsical
In 1900, a couple presents supposed inventions from the year 2000 to the director of a cabaret — but the show malfunctions and nothing goes as planned.
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Six directors + a time-travel cabaret pitch + deliberate malfunction = the kind of premise that makes you want to punch the air. They're not interested in making the gag land cleanly; they'd rather watch the whole apparatus break and reassemble itself into something genuinely weird.
There's a lineage here—vaudeville, Méliès, the theatrical avant-garde—and the film treats its formal inheritance with real intelligence, using the cabaret frame to legitimize formal experimentation rather than hide behind it.
The decision to let the show *actually* fall apart instead of cutting around the chaos is what makes this work; that commitment to real dysfunction over polished comedic timing transforms a high-concept bit into something that feels genuinely alive.