Give me a French fessée
2018 · 2m · Francia
Directed by Camille Sallan, Laura Passalacqua, Loïck Piton, Lucas Ansart
Genres: comedy, romance, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
Nobody forgets a first date, dreamed of and awaited with hope. When dreams take over reality, results turn astonishing.
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A first date that eats itself alive—romance as fever dream where desire and nightmare become indistinguishable. Exactly the kind of tonal whiplash that makes people uncomfortable, which means it's doing something right.
The four-director collaboration reveals itself in the formal precision of the surrealist grammar: each absurdist beat is measured, the transition from romantic anticipation to grotesque inversion disciplined and deliberate.
The choice to let the dream logic overwhelm the romance without cutting away or winking at the audience—that commitment to the warped emotional logic is what transforms a two-minute premise into something that actually lands.