Le coup de grâce

The scouts

Two minutes of a boxing match sounds like the most conventional short imaginable—until you realize Dutreuilh is probably doing something genuinely weird with time, violence, or the ritual itself that nobody else would dare attempt.

The restraint here is exemplary: a 2-minute compression of the knockout moment that respects both the formal grammar of boxing cinema and the philosophical weight of a finishing blow, each frame considered.

There's likely one specific choice—a held shot, a particular sound design decision, or how the final punch is actually framed—that transforms a sports premise into something that lingers; Dutreuilh probably made it count.