Synopsis
Vincent Must Die (Vincent doit mourir, 2023) is a French-Belgian thriller-fantasy you can watch online on iFILM. Director Stéphan Castang starts with a premise that sounds absurd and turns quietly terrifying: one morning, for no traceable reason, people around graphic designer Vincent start attacking him — a laptop to the face, a pen through the wrist.
He takes leave. Moves to the countryside. The violence follows. Every new stranger who locks eyes with him has about three seconds before something in them snaps. Karim Leklou plays Vincent with worn-down practicality — not a hero, just a man trying to outlast a rule he never agreed to. Vimala Pons plays Sandrine, almost the only person who hasn't yet tried to kill him, and their unlikely road dynamic is where the film finds its pulse.
Castang keeps the genre machinery stripped bare — no mythology dump, no monster reveal, no tidy resolution. What you get instead is a dread that accumulates through repetition, which makes this one of the stranger and more original French genre entries of 2023. Stream Vincent Must Die online on iFILM.
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