Ils ont tué Bubulle
2026 · 2m
Directed by Valentin Tierny
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, tense
Eva and Marc settle into their usual ritual — a well-rehearsed sexual game with handcuffs, insults and zero feelings — until terrible news invites itself into their bed.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Two minutes of a couple's mechanical sex game gets invaded by real catastrophe, and suddenly the artifice becomes unbearable — most scouts would call this maudlin, but it's actually a perfect subversion of the intimacy-through-detachment lie, and it lands because it refuses to sentimentalize the wreckage.
The film sits at an interesting formal crossroads between Kechiche's charged bedroom realism and the darker comic traditions of Desplechin, though it doesn't quite resolve the tension between its tonal ambitions; the premise is sound, but the execution feels slightly uncertain about whether it's tragedy or provocation.
The genius move here is the sound design in that moment when news enters the room — the way the acoustic space shifts before anyone speaks is what makes the whole mechanical ritual suddenly feel fragile, and it's a technical choice that costs nothing but observation.