Après moi le déluge

The scouts

It's a diagnosis masquerading as inquiry—too earnest, too invested in the premise that Quebec's media establishment deserves Gen Z's attention. Where's the bite? The film asks *why* they're leaving but seems genuinely shocked by the answer, which is the opposite of subversive.

Kaddouri positions himself within a lineage of Quebec essay cinema that interrogates cultural identity and institutional decline; the formal restraint—letting the absence speak—mirrors the generational silence he's documenting, a structurally aware choice that elevates what could be think-piece territory into genuine documentary meditation.

The decision to let interviewees sit in dead air rather than smooth over responses with scored B-roll—that single editorial discipline transforms what could be promotional hand-wringing into something genuinely unsettling about who gets to speak about culture's future.