Tout va bien
2026 · 2m
Directed by Aurore Lens
Genres: dark comedy, drama
In a dark room full of boxes, a man is ready to end his days — except it will not go as planned.
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A suicide setup that *doesn't* deliver the expected gutpunch—instead it pivots into absurdist chaos, which is exactly the kind of premise that makes conventional film folks squirm. Lens commits fully to the contradiction, refusing both tragedy and easy comedy, and that refusal is what makes it dangerous.
The formal economy here—two minutes in a single room, the restraint of mise-en-scène against the extremity of subject—recalls a lineage of minimalist European shorts that weaponize negative space. Lens understands that dark comedy at this scale requires architectural precision, not just tonal whiplash.
The genius move is the sound design in those opening seconds: the *weight* of that silence before anything moves, which tells you the whole story is about expectation collapsing. That choice—committing to quiet before the rupture—is what makes two minutes feel like they actually contain something.