La montre en or
2026 · 2m
Directed by Mehdi Besnainou
Genres: adventure, comedy, romance
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
Nicolas, a romantic but hopeless seducer who recites the same poem in poetry clubs, takes yet another dubious technique from his friend Mehdi — and an unexpected encounter turns his life into an unsettling adventure.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A two-minute portrait of serial failure as lifestyle choice—where the punchline isn't that the loser wins, but that he *stays* a loser and somehow that's the adventure. Besnainou threads the needle between whimsy and genuine unease, which is exactly the kind of tonal instability most scouts would iron out and he refuses to.
The film's economy is admirable—establishing Nicolas's haplessness through ritualized poetry-club repetition before pivoting into something stranger—but it ultimately reads as sketch comedy rather than a considered formal statement, missing the architectural rigor that would elevate its absurdist observations into something architecturally necessary.
The decision to let the same failed seduction technique become the hinge for an entirely unhinged turn suggests Besnainou understands that comedy lives in *timing*, not setup; that moment where you realize the film has abandoned logic for something darker is the single choice that makes the constraint of two minutes feel deliberate rather than limiting.