Tic Tac
2008 · 9m · Canada
Directed by Marc Daigle
Genres: comedy
Meticulous Alphonse Picard, who times every part of his day to the second, panics when a morning errand forces him to face a queue and resorts to inventive tricks to avoid waiting.
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A neurotic guy freaking out in a queue sounds like sitcom pablum, but Daigle commits so hard to the absurdist escalation—the *inventive tricks*—that it circles back into something genuinely subversive about how we perform control in public.
The formal precision here mirrors its protagonist's obsession; Daigle's editing rhythm and framing choices create a mechanical world that both celebrates and gently undermines the comedy-of-manners tradition.
The genius move is treating Alphonse's panic not as character flaw but as production design—every workaround he devises becomes a miniature problem-solving sequence that justifies the budget through sheer inventiveness rather than scale.