La Croute
2026 · 2m
Directed by Morgan Bocquet
Genres: crime, dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, tense
A home-care aide convinces her husband to help her burgle one of her patients and steal a painting she finds sublime and believes precious — but nothing goes as planned.
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A home-care aide robs her own patient over a painting—it's genuinely perverse, and the fact that it's framed as a dark comedy instead of moral handwringing is exactly the kind of premise that makes consensus critics squirm. Two minutes to upend every expectation about who deserves your sympathy.
Bocquet's economical editing and tonal control—balancing heist mechanics with the ethical weight of elder exploitation—positions this neatly in the tradition of Haneke's formal cruelty, though the brevity occasionally outpaces the formal argument it's making.
The decision to play the wife's aesthetic longing (her belief in the painting's preciousness) as the *actual* emotional core rather than the heist mechanics is what rescues this from cute premise territory—one performance beat and suddenly you're inside her moral calculus.