A 15-minute lie that took years to build—and one doctor's appointment to nearly destroy.
A man with a serious illness, visits his doctor. His condition does not improve. So, he asks him to come back with his wife. But here is the problem, he makes believe for several years to ...
Acting
Mustapha Abourachid plays both spouses—yes, both—with chaotic precision.
Direction
Fekrane squeezes a feature's worth of tension into 15 minutes flat.
Writing
The lie's architecture is so absurdly specific it circles back to believable.
Director
Mohamed Fekrane
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's formal address mirrors the rigid gender performance the film dismantles—French politeness as prison.
Fekrane reportedly wrote this after a real medical encounter where assumptions about his patient's 'wife' went unchallenged.
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