Boulettes
2020 · 6m · Canada
Directed by Patrick Gauthier
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, horror
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
Ginette runs the tasting kiosk at a small grocery store — and woe betide anyone who refuses her appetizing morsels, in this horror-comedy.
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Finally, a film that understands horror's real weapon isn't jump scares but social obligation—watching Ginette weaponize hospitality and guilt into something genuinely unsettling is the kind of genre inversion everyone sleeps on until someone gets it exactly right.
Gauthier channels the theatrical grotesquerie of body horror comedy with formal precision, deploying the confined space of the kiosk like a stage that tightens its geometry with each refusal—the film knows exactly which lineage it's working within, and executes it with control.
The entire film lives or dies on Ginette's face during each rejection, and whatever choice Gauthier made in the casting or performance direction—that micro-shift between hostess smile and something darker—is what makes the absurdist premise actually land with weight rather than just novelty.