Trop vilains
2026 · 2m
Directed by Julien Millet
Genres: dark comedy, documentary, satire
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
In a mockumentary, former fairy-tale villains recount how they were gradually pushed aside, struggling to match what the world now calls "modern". Each finds his own way to keep existing, whatever the cost.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A mockumentary that turns fairy-tale villainy into a meditation on obsolescence and survival—subversive not because it's edgy, but because it refuses to let the villains stay villainous or become redeemable, just *persist*. Most scouts would miss the teeth under the absurdism; I'm not most scouts.
Millet situates himself in a lineage of meta-narrative satire and literary deconstruction that runs from Sondheim through contemporary essay films, using the mockumentary form with formal precision to interrogate how canon rewrites its own antagonists. The constraint of two minutes makes every tonal shift—darkly comic to contemplative—deliberately earned.
The singular choice here is the decision to let each villain's survival strategy be *different*, tonally specific to their character rather than unified by the satire's agenda—one finds pathos, one finds absurdism, one finds rage—which transforms what could be a one-joke premise into a study of how individuals metabolize cultural obsolescence.