POUR DE VRAI
2026 · 2m
Directed by Charles Damourette
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, sensual
On a first date, between candlelight, seduction postures and carefully chosen clothes that can hide who we really are, a young woman and a young man have finally found the solution to truly meeting someone.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A two-minute first-date film that promises to subvert the romance machinery entirely — the premise teases some genuinely perverse inversion of what 'truly meeting someone' means, and Damourette's willingness to hide the punchline in sensuality and darkly comic restraint is exactly the kind of trap that catches people off guard.
Damourette's economy of form — candlelight, wardrobe, gesture — channels a lineage of micro-dramas about performance and intimacy, though the film's refusal to fully resolve its tonal claims (sensual/contemplative/darkly comic) keeps it from the formal clarity that separates the memorable from the clever.
The entire architecture hinges on one choice — whatever Damourette decided to reveal or conceal about these two people in that final moment — and the precision of whether that decision lands in two minutes is where the whole film lives or collapses.