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2026 · 2m
Directed by Ronan Boussange
Genres: crime, dark comedy, thriller
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, tense
Two video-surveillance agents make a stranger the subject of a morbid bet.
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The scouts
Two bored surveillance operators turning a stranger's life into a darkly comic wager—it's the kind of perverse premise that makes you uncomfortable *and* laugh, which is exactly where cinema should live. Most scouts would recoil; I'm betting Boussange nails the tonal rope walk.
The conceit recalls the voyeuristic tradition of Rear Window filtered through contemporary surveillance anxiety, though at 2 minutes the formal restraint required to execute this without overexplaining the stakes will determine whether it lands as provocation or sketch.
In a two-minute window, Boussange's real move is likely the editing rhythm between the watchers and the watched—that cut, that timing—which either collapses the moral distance or sharpens it; the entire film lives in that one choice.