Robert & Camille

The scouts

A gorilla comparison spirals into something genuinely unhinged—most scouts would clock this as cute relationship comedy and move on, but Hermès is doing something weirder here, letting absurdism corrode the whole premise until you're not sure what you're watching anymore. That's the move.

The film locates itself in a lineage of intimate two-handers that weaponize domestic space, though the documentary-within-film framing device feels slightly underdeveloped for the control it demands; the tonal pivot from comedy to something darker needed another beat to fully justify itself formally.

There's a single moment—the pause after the gorilla comment, before either of them reacts—where Hermès trusts the performers to hold the tension instead of cutting away, and that restraint is what makes the absurdity actually land rather than deflate.