Walk of Fame
2026 · 2m
Directed by Antonin Ricavy, Héloïse Bayon
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A young man fails a casting and takes it too personally, to the point of disfiguring himself - which will finally bring him recognition.
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Finally—a film that understands the joke isn't in the rejection, it's in the psychotic logic of fame itself; most shorts would wallow in pathos, but Ricavy and Bayon let the premise detonate into something genuinely perverse and hilarious.
The two-minute constraint forces an almost Bunuelian compression, though the tonal balance between grotesque body horror and satirical commentary occasionally strains under its own ambitions rather than deepening through restraint.
That final beat—the recognition earned through disfigurement—hinges entirely on the timing of the reveal and whatever reaction choice they landed on, and if they nailed it, the whole bitter paradox clicks into place in one frame.