What if one day, we acted on impulse and let our darkest desires come to fruition? We would no longer hesitate to get rid of crying babies or to definitively shut up the person who has been conscientiously keeping us from drinking our morning coffee in peace for the past 20 years.
Les Petits Contretemps are the tipping points, the precise moments when everything changes color and rhythm. In just a few cinematic sentences, these stories grab our attention and lead us into their dark world. Situations that should be ordinary – couples, children, sickness, loss and more – turn into occasions for staring with cruel glee at those instants when everything spins out of control and anything can happen: a man leaves his wife, but she calmly presents him with a list of things to do before he moves on to his new life (fix the washing machine, change the tires on the moped, tighten some leaking faucets, etc.); a divorced father tries in vain to spend an ordinary day with his daughter; one Christmas eve, a woman realizes that the beggar sitting on a bench is the very man who once made her suffer...
Just as a radiant blue sky can be a harbinger of a terrible storm, a seemingly ordinary day can reveal the unexpected…

A series of darkly funny, surprising vignettes portraying everyday situations that spin off into the absurd, the horrid or the grotesque... How fiction can sometimes achieve what we wouldn’t dare to accomplish in real life!