Valeur Morale
2026 · 2m
Directed by Nina Deflache, Céline Karsenti
Tones: darkly comic, tense
When Carla, Manon, Safia and Julie start betting, everything goes wrong — but what exactly are they betting on?
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A two-minute bet between four women that refuses to tell you what's actually at stake—most festivals would demand clarity, which is exactly why this works. The darkly comic tension lives entirely in the ambiguity, a narrative middle finger to plot-first storytelling.
Deflache and Karsenti demonstrate formal restraint in the tradition of Haneke and Koreeda, where withholding information becomes a deliberate stylistic choice rather than confusion; the editing rhythm controls what we're allowed to know, positioning the viewer as complicit in the mystery.
The decision to keep the bet's object invisible forces every performance moment to do double duty—facial micro-expressions become the entire language of the film, and that constraint transforms four actors into seismographs of unspoken stakes.