Vincent Must Die

Vincent is a graphic designer in Lyon who finds that everyone, starting with his coworkers but soon expanding out into the wider community, suddenly wants to kill him for no obvious reason. He eventually meets Margaux, a waitress who seems to be the only person not out to kill Vincent. Later when he tries to drive away with her, he hears of a plague on the radio, and sees a pile of cars with people who have gotten out and try to kill each other. ==Cast==

The film premiered in the Critics' Week program at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. It was also invited at the 28th Busan International Film Festival in 'World Cinema' section and was screened on 7 October 2023. It was theatrically released in France on 15 November 2023 by Capricci Films. An English dub made using artificial intelligence was released in the United States on 31 October 2025 by XYZ Films as part of a double feature release, paired with Hallow Road. ==Reception==

Critical response Damon Wise of Deadline Hollywood reviewed the film positively, writing that "for all its deadpan humor — an altercation by an open sewer goes exactly the way you think/hope it might — Vincent Must Die is a really rather thoughtful film about the minefield of microaggressions that await us all. You can read the set-up as a metaphor for office politics, and the rest of it as allegory for the internecine nature of social media, where the mildest of opinions can ruin lives and reputations. Most of all, though, it is a joyfully absurdist tale of everyday alienation writ large. If Samuel Beckett had scripted Shaun of the Dead, it might have looked something like this." ==References==