Comme des lapins

The scouts

A fish-headed curse-bearer contaminating a rabbit park with his bad luck is exactly the kind of absurdist premise that makes consensus critics squirm—which means Cerfon's already won half the battle. The fact that he commits completely to the surreal logic without winking at the audience is what separates this from a clever concept that collapses under its own weight.

Cerfon situates this within a lineage of darkly comic European animation that respects both grotesque character design and the melancholic undercurrent running beneath slapstick; the formal restraint in how the film reveals each disaster's consequence shows a director aware of pacing tradition.

The decision to give La Poisse's misfortunes physical form—visible bubbles that drift and land with consequence—transforms what could've been abstract into tactile and devastating; it's a single formal choice that makes the entire metaphor land rather than merely conceptually exist.

Reviews

Ce petit bijou d'humour noir à l'univers graphique riche et soigné révèle un jeune réalisateur plus que prometteur. Pour qui goûte l'humour noir, le film offre son lot de scènes et de détails comiques qui provoquent le rire et établissent une distance salutaire avec la noirceur des événements qui sont dépeints.