N°712
2026 · 2m
Directed by Florence Guillet
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
Clotilde Petit, an exemplary candidate, prepares for a decisive job interview, but before a recruiter whose selection criteria grow ever more absurd and unpredictable, her bearings blur.
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A job interview where the rules collapse into pure absurdism—finally, someone's weaponizing the mundane bureaucracy we're all trapped in and letting it eat itself. Guillet doesn't wink at the satire; she just lets the recruiter's criteria mutate until reality snaps, and that refusal to land on comfortable ridicule is exactly the kind of subversive move that makes everyone else nervous.
Guillet's compression of Kafkaesque institutional critique into 2 minutes demonstrates formal precision—the escalation of interview absurdity tracks a clear tonal arc, and the editing rhythm mirrors Clotilde's psychological unraveling with economy that recalls the measured surrealism of Buñuel shorts.
The whole film hinges on a single performance choice: Clotilde's face staying almost still while the chaos around her intensifies, so the recruiter's growing madness reads as her internal collapse mirrored outward—one sustained micro-expression that makes the budget invisible and the idea inescapable.