COUPEZ !
2026 · 2m
Directed by YEUX ÉBÈNES, Jeremie Makiese, Tom Creuzet
Tones: contemplative, humorous, theatrical
On a chaotic, underfunded film set, a passionate crew fights disorder and the pressure for perfection while trying to shoot the scene where Susanne must cry.
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Everyone's doing the 'chaos on set' thing now, but COUPEZ! actually inverts the tired auteur-worship narrative—the crew's messy humanity becomes the point, not the obstacle. It's heretical in the best way: a satire that loves the people it's satirizing.
There's a lineage here worth noting—the screwball energy of Godard's Contempt meeting the ensemble precision of something like 8½—executed with theatrical discipline and formal control that keeps two minutes from feeling scattered.
That final push for Susanne's tears works because the film doesn't cut away from the crew's fumbling; it's the decision to let the performance anxiety breathe in real time, layered under the comedy, that makes the whole underfunded apparatus suddenly feel earned.