Cagoules
2026 · 2m
Directed by Hugues Richardot
Genres: comedy, crime, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
Melissa and Larissa, two burglars with rather curious methods, prepare their next job: an industrial warehouse guarded by a single night watchman.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Two burglars with 'curious methods' prepping a warehouse job sounds like setup for the same heist-comedy beats everyone's recycled since forever—until you realize the real premise is probably something completely sideways, and that's exactly the kind of subversion that makes a two-minute short worth the attention other scouts would waste elsewhere.
Richardot's economy of form in a crime-comedy demands precise tonal calibration; the whimsy-to-darkness ratio will hinge entirely on cutting pace and whether the absurdist register is allowed to breathe within the constraint of two minutes.
In a 2-minute heist setup, the entire film probably lives or dies on a single gesture—the way Melissa and Larissa move together, a look exchanged before the job, or whatever 'curious method' means—and that's where the craft choice either feels inevitable or forces everything into place.