Basses
2018 · 23m · France
Directed by Félix Imbert
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, thriller
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tense
At summer's end, Logan picks up his best friend Théo from the psychiatric clinic after a fifteen-day stay and they flee across the mountains toward the biggest rave of their lives.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise wants to be a rave-bound escape fantasy, but Imbert keeps yanking the camera back to the psychological weight underneath—it's almost too aware of its own melancholy to fully commit to the subversion, which makes it respectable but not the genuinely weird thing it could've been.
A formally controlled descent into emotional fragility; Imbert's editing maintains constant pressure between the forward momentum of the journey and the gravitational pull of Théo's recent trauma, situating itself squarely in the European arthouse tradition of the wayward-youth film.
The decision to keep Théo mostly silent and reactive—letting his face and breathing do the narrative work while Logan drives both the car and the conversation—is what transforms this from a buddy-road-movie into something genuinely unsettling, and it costs nothing but attention.