Title:Sixty-Seven Milliseconds
Foreign Title: Soixante-sept millisecondes
Year: 2025
Country: France
Language: In French with English subtitles
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Directors: Galdric Fleury, Antoine Fontaine
What happens “after” a shooting of a teen is recorded on a surveillance camera? Alternating between images of the high-caliber weapon used in the deed and the repulsive badges of the Anti-Crime Squad who appear and disappear around corners like a video game, the event at the centre of the tale begins its frame-by-frame movement away from accountability. Threatening to drown out the “truth” described by surveillance cameras, we are provided with a behind the scenes conversation between two high-ranking cops who are already devising the “copping-out” from the situation. (Their unit could be called Counter Strike.) The music is suspenseful, heavy, humid.
Unfortunately, as recounted by the hapless teen who turns to run away from them, this is no video game and these shiny guns may not kill, but their agents can.
The extreme close-ups of mad dogs, rhinos, prowling tigers, crusaders, skeletons and scythes convey more than a warning to kids that they will take away their “shisha” – just ask the victim.
Based on a true story.
