La plainte
2026 · 2m
Directed by Antoine Lacroix, Marie Gleyze
Genres: crime, drama, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
After filing a complaint against a singer, a young woman is interrogated by the police; in a tense face-off, the search for truth collides with judgments and perceptions, and her word is gradually called into question.
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Two minutes of interrogation room claustrophobia sounds like a procedural elevator pitch, but if Lacroix and Gleyze are actually weaponizing that constraint to demolish the witness-reliability genre from inside, I'm listening—though I suspect this plays it straighter than it needs to.
A taut two-minute study in how institutional pressure and social perception conspire to destabilize testimony; the formal economy here—the interrogation room as contained stage, the editing rhythm controlling what we're allowed to doubt—positions this squarely in the lineage of Haneke and early Audiard.
The entire film hinges on one choice: whether the camera stays neutral or subtly mirrors the interrogator's skepticism back at us, and if Lacroix and Gleyze commit fully to that visual grammar, two minutes becomes a masterclass in how a single perceptual shift erases credibility.