EX OF TOMORROW
2025 · 2m · France
Directed by Nicolas Benoit
Genres: dark comedy, romance, sci-fi
Tones: darkly comic, tense
A couple on the verge of breaking up relives a time loop as explosive secrets surface — between tension and dark humor, how far will they go to escape it?
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The scouts
A time loop that weaponizes intimacy instead of just resetting stakes—two people trapped not by physics but by the messy, unsayable stuff between them. Most shorts use sci-fi as window dressing; this one uses it as a scalpel to ask what you'd actually do to escape someone you love.
Benoit understands the formal lineage here—the tonal control of *Groundhog Day* reframed through contemporary relationship dissolution, each loop iteration marked by precise editing that tightens rather than repeats. It's a film aware of its own mechanical elegance.
The decision to make the dark humor arrive *through* the tension rather than deflect it is what separates this from dozens of similar premises; that tonal layering in a two-minute window, sustained without a single wasted frame, is the entire architecture working.
Reviews
Ex of tomorrow ironise, jusque dans son titre, sa propre prévisibilité. Tout dans l'énergie de ce film sert le rythme comique et il échappe à une lourdeur qu'on craindrait pour ce genre de production.