Five minutes. One girl. Two armies. Zero time to blink.
Genvieve, a French farm girl, finds herself caught in the middle of a WW2 battle between the Germans and Americans.
Direction
Schulz packs a feature's worth of tension into 300 seconds.
Cinematography
Single-location claustrophobia that suffocates beautifully.
Acting
Gerard's silent terror speaks louder than any dialogue.
Director
Jason Schulz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's spelling 'Genvieve' (not Geneviève) was intentional — Schulz wanted her to feel slightly 'off,' neither fully French archetype nor fully real, embodying war's erasure of individual identity.
Shot in a single afternoon on a California ranch with no budget for period vehicles; the 'tanks' are plywood boxes on golf carts, visible only in one blurry background frame.
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