Une minute de silence
2026 · 2m
Directed by Aurélien Mathieu
Tones: tense, theatrical
Two actors, a couple in real life, tear into each other backstage on a shoot; called back to the set, they must play a scene that puts their real feelings to the test.
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It's a fun meta-trap—real couple, fake scene, the blurring feels inevitable—but the premise does the heavy lifting and the execution doesn't quite subvert enough to surprise; it's a clever idea that knows exactly what it is, which is exactly the problem.
The theatrical tension threading through the backstage/onstage duality recalls a lineage of performance-within-performance work, and the formal constraint of that two-minute frame demands real discipline in how the emotional stakes telescope from private to public.
The decision to keep the real couple's fight rhythmically, tonally unresolved until they step into character—that cut from chaos to composed artifice—is what makes the whole thing land; it's the gap between those two emotional frequencies that does all the work.