Paula Guedes

Once we discovered French director Yann Gonzalez’s debut, You and the Night, we had to see more. So we’ve tracked down the short he made just before his first feature—and, unsurprisingly, it is pure kink featuring a mother-daughter stripping act. Hyper-stylized, campy and sexy, the film simply pops!

Over a sleepless night in 1978, Francisco and Rita meet up to remember João, a recently murdered childhood friend. João had belonged to a subversive leftist group during the dictatorship, and was a film producer who had been filming an adaptation of Alexandre Herculano’s drama The Jester.