Peigne Fin
2026 · 2m
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Timmerman
Tones: contemplative, tense
A man crosses paths with another man - and sets off in pursuit of him.
Picked by Zoe
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Two minutes of a man following another man sounds like the setup for a parody of thriller mechanics—except Timmerman seems genuinely committed to the absurdity of pursuit without revelation, which is either brilliant or self-sabotaging, and I'm still not sure which.
The film inherits the formal restraint of structural cinema while operating within genre convention, creating a productive tension between mystery's promise of answers and a minimalist aesthetic that withholds them.
What elevates this from concept to film is the decision to sustain the follower's perspective without cutting away—one unbroken commitment to a single point of view transforms a simple premise into something that feels inevitably true.