I program a forty seat room above a hardware store in Chicago. Two shows a week, whatever I can license. I think about running order more than I think about anything else. If a short can open for a feature, I will find the feature.
Forty one minutes is a lot of pilot and this one uses all of it. Two thirds of the way in I realised nobody had told me who the police were, and then I realised that was the point, and then somebody got arrested and I still was not sure. It is Marseille as a working port, not a postcard. The dockside sequence at night would play enormous in a real room.
I have programmed this twice and both times the room went completely still at the roadside scene. It plays. That is not a small thing for a fifteen minute film with no plot to speak of. Anane understands that a city at three in the morning is not empty, it is just working a different shift.
