Ordalie

I don't know what to think about this short movie. A lonely man in his apartment has a visit from a young man, who says he was hired to kill him. The man in the flat doesn't seem to be that surprised and waits quietly the visitor to kill him with a gun. But the killer is very clumsy about his mission. The supposed victim then helps him to accomplish the lethal task....it is funny at some moments but overall dark, not really dark humor. Well....see for yourself;

At the first sigh, a short dark comedy. A middle age man, a visitor, with precise mission, an apartment and the emotion making all absolutely difficult. The great virtue, not doubts, the acting. And , sure, the expectation of the end. The apartment as character, too. And the cold perspective, with gentle embroideries, about death. A beautiful film, not the last, for admirable collaboration between Michel Fau and an almost not recognizable Gaspard Ulliel , the last in splendid science to use each detail proposed by his role.