En Bombe
2026 · 2m
Directed by Marie Abega, Hermance Roué
Tones: contemplative, surreal
A beautiful young woman turns up at a party she was not invited to - but she is only passing through.
Picked by Zoe
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The premise promises trespass and mystery but lands in exactly the expected tone — contemplative, surreal, a woman drifting through someone else's story. I wanted it to *rupture* the party, not glide through it like a ghost we've already seen a hundred times.
Two minutes of formal restraint, the uninvited guest as a motif that echoes through cinema history—Tati, Kiarostami—though the execution here feels more atmospheric than argued; it sits in the tradition without quite interrogating why.
There's a single decision buried here—likely in how they chose *not* to show her face, or the exact rhythm of that entrance—that transforms a one-line premise into something that lingers; the constraint of two minutes forces every frame to work.