LA CARTE POSTALE

The scouts

A two-minute film about buying a postcard sounds like the most boring premise imaginable, which is exactly why Mélanie Pic probably nailed it — the kind of nothing-happens setup that either collapses or becomes a Trojan horse for something genuinely weird.

The restraint here is formally interesting if the execution honors it; a premise this minimal demands rigorous control over every frame, every beat, or it evaporates entirely.

At two minutes, this film lives or dies on a single choice — whether that's in the edit, the performance, or how Pic frames the transaction itself — and that's exactly where emerging filmmakers prove whether they understand economy of gesture.