Saturday, September 14, 2019

Fauve



Canadian director Jeremy Comte's disturbing French-language short Fauve follows two boys -- competing alpha males -- playing daring games in the environs of a Quebecois mine until one of them gets stuck in a pit, fun turns to fear and the natural world intrudes abruptly and definitely. The last 5 minutes, filled with expanses of barren grayness, are haunting.
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