PAULINE ENSLAVED

Pauline has no news from Bruce, the married man whom she has an affair with. During her break in the countryside with her friend Violette, she will spend the whole stay waiting for… a text message.

Combining jagged handheld camerawork with rapid-fire dialogue, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s droll short channels the fidgety anxiety of pining for a lover’s text. Oscillating between willful denial and simmering anger, star Anaïs Demoustier personifies millennial neuroses with tragicomic accuracy.