Fauve

Comte disorients us at first, leaving us to play detective as we attempt to figure out the rules, and before things quite make sense, he springs the twist...

The gut-wrenching horror comes with the realisation that some mistakes cannot be fixed.

Comte's challenge in Fauve was to take an emotion and from the start slowly build up its intensity. In the middle, he sustains it. At the very end, he takes a nice, sharp needle and pops it for a powerful finish. Challenge met.

With bleak, dystopic locales reminiscent of Tarkovsky, this elemental study of power and regret is a stunner.