On the eve of Y2K, Christine finally introduces her lover, Mina, to her parents. The evening promises to be strange.
Diploma project (2021) by Alexandre Brulé
Fiction / 17 min
Synopsis
31 December 1999. While everyone on TV is waiting for the Y2K bug, Christine is getting ready to celebrate the new millennium with a group of friends and her lover, Mina. But the couple must first make a detour to the holiday home of Christine’s parents, an opportunity for them to finally meet their daughter-in-law. They seem to get along surprisingly well, but the young woman begins to find the behaviour of her parents increasingly strange… As time goes on and the aperitif turns into dinner, and as the fateful hour approaches, she understands that they have walked right into a trap.
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