LE RENDEZ-VOUS
2026 · 2m · France
Directed by Romain Lafargue, Thibault Lafargue
Genres: drama, mystery, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, surreal, tense
Preparing for a romantic date in his bathroom, a man notices a detail in his reflection.
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Two minutes of a guy getting ready for a date shouldn't work as surreal mystery, but Lafargue & Lafargue make the bathroom mirror into something genuinely unsettling—the kind of premise that sounds like nothing until it isn't, and by then you're stuck wondering what you actually saw.
The formal restraint here is admirable: a single location, a fixed frame, letting dread accumulate through editing rhythm and the weight of a glance—there's a lineage of psychological suspense shorts this sits in conversation with, executed with real discipline.
The decision to keep the camera locked while the man's composure fractures around it—that stillness against internal chaos—is what makes two minutes of bathroom mirror anxiety feel like it matters; one formal choice and suddenly you're watching something genuinely unsettling happen to someone ordinary.