Ceci est un message de la Nouvelle République Française
2026 · 2m
Directed by François Boulet, Malo Pelletier
Tones: dark, provocative, theatrical
In a dystopian France where the New French Republic has made beauty a national duty, an actor lends his voice to the regime for the recording of a propaganda film.
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The scouts
A two-minute Godardian gut-punch that weaponizes the voice itself—making complicity tactile, making propaganda beautiful, making you squirm at the seduction of it all. This is the kind of premise that feels genuinely dangerous, the kind other scouts will nervously pass on.
Situates itself cannily within a lineage of dystopian cinema and Swiftian satire, but the formal rigor—the restraint of showing so little while implying so much—elevates it beyond premise into genuine craft consideration.
The decision to keep the actor's face absent, letting only the voice carry the moral weight of collaboration, is the hinge the entire film turns on—economical, devastating, and exactly the kind of formal constraint that transforms a two-minute sketch into something unforgettable.