Qui est-ce ?

2026 · 2m

Directed by Mario-Alberto Sautré

Genres: comedy, mystery

Tones: absurdist, whimsical

Two women try to guess what the person one of them met looks like; will they manage to guess?

Picked by Zoe

The scouts

A guessing game about a stranger's face should be tedious; instead Sautré lets the absurdist gap between description and reality crater into something genuinely unhinged—the kind of premise that sounds like nothing until it isn't.

Felix

The film demonstrates formal restraint in its two-minute economy, positioning itself within the French comedy tradition of linguistic play and revelation, though the structural payoff remains somewhat familiar to the genre's established rhythms.

Margot

What makes this work is the precise timing of when Sautré cuts between the women's guessing and the reveal—that single editorial decision transforms a parlor game into something unexpectedly poignant, squeezing genuine character from constraint.

Zoe