Certains en meurent
2026 · 2m
Directed by Violette Billard
Genres: crime, drama, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
Two childhood friends are getting by on dodgy little jobs. One evening, Elios, the quieter of the two, is wounded in a fight with a rival group, and the two young men are forced into hiding.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Crime-thriller premise, two dudes hiding after a fight—sounds like every Gaspar Noé knockoff made in the last decade. Unless Billard's doing something genuinely weird with it, this is exactly the kind of film that makes me reach for my phone.
A lean two-minute crime drama that likely situates itself within the French tradition of intimate social realism; the question is whether Billard's formal choices—editing rhythm, sound design, the geometry of the hiding scenes—demonstrate the considered restraint that elevates vulnerability into something archaeologically interesting.
Two minutes is nothing, which means Billard either wastes every frame or makes a single choice—a glance between them, a sound cue during the wound, the texture of their refuge—that tells you everything about why these two stay together when everything is collapsing.