BELLES À TUER (PRETTY FACES)
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alexandre Guerreiro
Genres: crime, mystery, thriller
A new crime scene tonight — the third in a short time, and all three murders appear to be the work of one man. The Commissioner, due to meet the press in an hour, refuses to speak of a serial killer when the police do not have the slightest lead, but time is pressing.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A procedural thriller that plays it dead straight—no twist, no deconstruction, just three bodies and a clock. Fine craftsmanship, sure, but it's exactly the kind of consensus crime story that makes Felix reach for something weirder.
Guerreiro understands the grammar of police procedural cinema; the pressure-cooker setup with the Commissioner's impossible hour recalls the best of European thriller tradition, and the editing choice to withhold the killer's identity while tightening the frame around institutional panic shows real command of suspense through form.
The 2-minute constraint forces a single devastating choice: cutting between the crime scenes and the press conference countdown, where the real crime becomes the silence—it's that decision to let bureaucratic dread do the heavy lifting that transforms a slight premise into something that lands.