Vincent must die (3½ Stars)

This is the 18th film in the Stuttgart Fantasy Film Festival.

Vincent Borel is a middle-aged graphics designer in Lyon. He leads a dull life, creating dull computer animations of walk-throughs through houses. One day an intern in his company makes an unprovoked attack on him, hitting him over the head with a laptop. The intern is fired. The next day one of Vincent's colleagues attacks him, stabbing him with a pen. Over the next few days Vincent is repeatedly attacked without reason, even by small children. Everyone wants to kill him.

The trigger seems to be eye contact. As soon as someone looks into Vincent's eyes, he wants to kill him. The only thing Vincent can do is avoid people altogether. He makes a girlfriend in a diner. At first they get on well, but then she wants to kill him as well.

I shan't go into more details, except to say that it's a confusing film. There's no explanation for the attacks. I couldn't even understand the logic of the developments in the last half hour. Other reviewers have said that the film is a satire. If it is, I don't get it. It's a film I'd like to watch again. It deserves a second chance.