Sci-Fi Short Film "The Last Journey of the Enigmatic Paul" | DUST

The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the enigmatic Paul W.R., the most talented astronaut of his generation. Mysteriously, a few hours before the start of the Great Mission, Paul disappears.
"The Last Journey of the Enigmatic Paul" W.R by Romain Quirot
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[@antoipepper]

At the end, it seemed like he was happy to escape all the voices until he realized how utterly alone he was. The expression on his face, horror mixed with regret...

[@MicrobiusBlue]

We search for solitude and quiet but when we find it...the Silence is Deafening

[@wilsonwarner6903]

Very well put.

[@miriamkelly3106]

Unless the sound of deafening silence is what we crave.

[@renaissancesage]

Brilliantly acted and shot and scripted and a music score which adds depth to the tapestry of this work. This is a fine piece of cinema!

[@bigcity2085]

Indeed;exactly what I thought,....as if..I could read your- nah,forget it.

[@josephpiskac2781]

Beautiful I need to watch it again for a better sense of the story. Hope the best for Hugo Becker's career.

[@tuberobotto]

If there's anything DUST is notoriously known for, it's for being a "cliffhanger" Cafe for hosting videos that clearly lack endings or conclusions. What a heartbreaker.

[@Pouncer9000]

Huh the ending was clear as a bell? The main theme wasn't the end of the world, rather it was Paul having to make an impossible choice, living hell with others where he couldn't be himself or utter solitude. In the end he makes a choice.

[@NickUncommon]

Short films as well as short stories are a certain kind of art form. Like a sonnett poem, they have to follow certain rules. Maybeyou wat to look up, what the "anatomy"of a short is described at. Beginning apruptly and being open ended belongs to this form of storytelling, so this short film is perfect.

[@sinan2.71]

@@NickUncommon This is not a short film. There is clearly a buy or rent version of this film with the same name and same actor that lasts 1:26:53 minutes available.

[@bigcity2085]

Watch, "Orbit Ever After". One of the best DUST's ever....with an ending, just for you.

[@kimberlycarrigan8824]

What cliffhanger? He saved the world and was alone. With complete silence.

[@DigitalNomadCEO]

The story line of this movie short was so well presented that the outcome was secondary to me. This is one of the best movie shorts I've seen in a very long time. Well done!

[@wilmaboot]

I love this. Like looking through a kalidascope , science fiction takes me somewhere I've never been. Thanks. Bravo

[@barrahart]

Masterful. Quirky. Bold. A true art film. Much love to this creative team from a fellow sci-fi storyteller.

[@ewaf88]

The voices reminded me of Alphaville. I really enjoyed the film and loved the retro rocket design.

[@mattrobinson47]

Excellent. Really kinda groundbreaking, the team that made this managed to pull off so much in a quarter-of-an-hour: a remarkable character study; an interesting science-fiction drama; a minimal but effective world-building and a scene of heartbreak that plays out in the audience’s heads at the same time it fully is realized by his love interest. And btw that scene was devastating. Oh, and FINALLY a flying car in the 21st century!

[@Dmitry-softway-Lebedev]

Oh, thank YOU. Paul, please, dont sleep in your lonely journey. And someone, please, find him!

[@thedreamisreal]

Another perfectly absorbing gem

[@soerengerlach4932]

I really like the approach, telling a story without actually telling most of it. This keeps the audience awake and in a waiting state, super nice. But the last minute could have been spared out. When the rocket got off, the message is told, even if you are the saviour of humankind, it's still your decision to do so. No further picture are required IMHO

[@timothywilliams1359]

Curieux de voir un film en français mais qui semble si bien situé au sud-ouest des USA aux années 1950, jusqu'au style de l'automobile flottant. Quant au thème, eh bien, Dust ne me fait pas penser autant que d'autres qui apprécient ces ambigüités.

[@darnaejackman7208]

This whole thing just confused the shit outta me

[@MMAGamblingTips]

Join my club. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@toujourslamour7573]

So sad. He's the only one on Earth with the talent to read minds.. which means he's hated.. so Earthers offer, and he accepts, to exile himself aboard a rocketship.. (am i right so far?) .. bound for where? the "red" Moon.. why? Story lost me at this point. Is there a lunar base there for him to live out his life? None was shown. Anyway, the acting was spot on, and special fx and hovering classic car, and rocket just sitting there in the desert waiting for him.. were all cool.

[@somewhat7]

Last Journey of Paul W.R. Science fiction • 2022 • 1 hr 26 min French and English audio Unrated CC Buy or rent In a near-future of ecological havoc, the mysterious Red Moon, excessively mined for its energy, abruptly changes course and heads straight to Earth. Paul W.R., the only astronaut capable of saving mankind, disappears at the dawn of his mission: he has discovered the secret of the Red Moon and why it must not be destroyed... Relentlessly hunted down, Paul encounters Elma, an explosive-tempered teenage girl who follows him on his quest for truth through an arid world.

[@MMAGamblingTips]

I see people calling this a masterpiece, etc. Indeed, the cinematography is beautiful, but it confused the hell out of me. Moreover, the ending was ambiguous to the point of crippling the narrative underpinning of the first to acts. It left me bewildered instead of astonished.

[@somewhat7]

Last Journey of Paul W.R. Science fiction • 2022 • 1 hr 26 min French and English audio Unrated CC Buy or rent In a near-future of ecological havoc, the mysterious Red Moon, excessively mined for its energy, abruptly changes course and heads straight to Earth. Paul W.R., the only astronaut capable of saving mankind, disappears at the dawn of his mission: he has discovered the secret of the Red Moon and why it must not be destroyed... Relentlessly hunted down, Paul encounters Elma, an explosive-tempered teenage girl who follows him on his quest for truth through an arid world.

[@samudrabrahma3290]

Not First but still infinity

[@aldroid4844]

One of the Best Dust movies I’ve seen. Great acting 🎭

[@aaronmikejunior7481]

Well I'll be damned🔥🙌

[@Failte630]

Really liked this. The French have their own style of Cinema and I like it.

[@segurosincero4057]

Alone at last.

[@sergnemo2379]

я видел этот фильм пару лет назад..или это мне приснилось...?

[@aden302000]

You could watch the actual movie of this that was released in 2020 Its 1h 20 min called "The Last Journey of Paul W R"

[@miriamkelly3106]

Finally, the quite.

[@RaraAvis1138]

Sweet! Love the dull, muted tones. Good acting and storyline. Thank you!

[@TheGreenNewSteal2025]

I was happy for the janitor and the cashier.

[@thaska6106]

Merci Beacoup 😯.

[@Streamcatcher]

Amelien :) Well done, i loved it!

[@Shagsteri]

"Wow!" .

[@XRobinson]

If humanity doesn't leave for Space it won't survive when the Sun expands into a red giant Star.

[@raphlvlogs271]

retro futuristic vibes

[@Journeyjunckies]

Beautiful short story.

[@clockworkdimetrodon1001]

I feel that many of these works, as amazing as they are, could be so much more with a full time table and script length to work with. Then again, maybe not. Maybe the length is perfect to tell the story the writers were telling and anything more would be “too much”.

[@bjb7587]

Paul! Paul!! Paul!!! Paul!!!! Yaaaaaay, Paul!!!!!

[@tatianabardez5131]

Du grand art à tous les niveaux! Du scénario au jeu d'acteur en passant par la réalisation, les décors, les dialogues, les sous-textes, la musique, etc... Peut-être est-ce le fait que le court-métrage est en français ou que je suis moi-même française et que je suis une grande amoureuse du film par Jean-Pierre Jeunet et de la musique par Yann Tiersen, mais j'y ai retrouvé comme un petit goût du Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain. Il faut dire que Paul W. R. a toute une destinée lui aussi. ;o) Sans doute l'effet du choix de musique, du choix des couleurs offertes aux images et du bris du quatrième mur par Paul. En bref, j'ai adoré!!!! :)

[@owlthepirate5997]

Why did you write that twice, lol?

[@patrickselden5747]

It's brilliant! I Ioved it! ☝️😎

[@raulmiranda7983]

Anyone else felt like a reflection spark of one self

[@jenesisjones6706]

wow! Just WOW!

[@olddecimal2736]

Beauty right here.

[@rolloxra670]

I don’t understand, from what or who is he going to save them?

[@Cruusher]

Fallout!

[@TimTimmay]

I could care less what happened to Paul, I just want to know, what’s his last name 🤔😆

[@Pouncer9000]

@@donalddixon6541 With Regards

[@XRobinson]

@@donalddixon6541 He's not one of us.

[@onlineghost9813]

@@donalddixon6541 no, i didnt understand the film at all, it was nice but i got lost in the story , so they saved them form what? what was the problem?

[@bungeechord1]

I wish the subtitles were easier to read.

[@MichaelSteltzer]

i would give so much to know what the music is in this film

[@keksterbojester818]

I'm trying to figure out what his mission was exactly

[@donm5354]

Famous French mind reading astronaut is the only one who can save the world from an ominous RED MOON by launching a 50s style retro rocket ship sitting in the middle of nowhere. 🤔WHY??? 🤔 Dont ask questions - its FRENCH - thats all you need to know. 😵‍💫 Visually interesting in a GATTACA (1997 film) kind of way.

[@zethraelofteldrassil3149]

You summed it up beautifully ... it's French. Everyone can take it from there.

[@biglakejudy]

and yet he smokes a cigarette with a filter?

[@JohnBlack-xs5ue]

How does Paul’s leaving Earth result in the Moon no longer threatening to crash into Earth?

[@41divad]

he'll tow it?

[@newtronix]

From some angles he looks really like the guy from 2001. I guess in some ways his journey is the same.

[@wilsonwarner6903]

Wow.

[@immanutt4442]

I have a black & decker sander just like that ... I didn't recognize the car so far buffs please help me out ... thanks a mint !!!

[@immanutt4442]

car

[@bjb7587]

Belt sander race anyone?

[@johnneilson6846]

I think it might be a Peugeot

[@immanutt4442]

looks like a Metropolitan ... but 4 door ?

[@jimpatterson5524]

Not an American car. Looked French, but could be british or some other non-descript auto.

[@withouttamericaisgreat2795]

Can't read the subtitles. Letters are too small, no contrast.

[@cosmiccitizen3726]

So does he have telekinesis as well as telepathy? Is the moon colliding with the earth? So many questions

[@DutchKC9UOD]

They leave the ending up to your imagination lol

[@jimpatterson5524]

the point comes when a person tires of making up endings and wants to be TOLD a complete story whether in 5 minutes or 50 minutes.....

[@oo2free]

A french-toasted warmed-up rehash of an age old conundrum, one I am currently experiencing. I try to self-isolate and live out my sundown days avoiding the general meltdown, but my oddball quirky community reaches out and keeps me engaged, nominally.

[@norasheffield8036]

It was great all the way until the last ten seconds.

[@jacquelineheaton2545]

i dont get it

[@johnkennedy4023]

Doesn't everyone hear these voices?

[@tato_aja]

Scifi at its finest 👍👍

[@fardinmaghami8287]

❤❤❤❤

[@SynthoidSounds]

Trying way too hard to be an esoteric art film. I can relate to art films that can convey a message, a feeling, an experience, but this didn't do any of that. It just seemed absurdly, but unintentionally comical. I know, it was supposed to pose all of these deeply philosophical (but very simplistic) questions about humanity, our potential fate, the loneliness of telepathic existence and so on, but it just came off as a misguided attempt to have "the most qualified astronaut" (whatever that is) being the sole resource to save the entire planet from a threatening "red moon" (whatever that is) as the vehicle for this philosophical pondering. The overly dramatic face shot at the end, the ultimate cliche'. Sorry, this just didn't hit the mark.

[@somewhat7]

Last Journey of Paul W.R. Science fiction • 2022 • 1 hr 26 min French and English audio Unrated CC Buy or rent In a near-future of ecological havoc, the mysterious Red Moon, excessively mined for its energy, abruptly changes course and heads straight to Earth. Paul W.R., the only astronaut capable of saving mankind, disappears at the dawn of his mission: he has discovered the secret of the Red Moon and why it must not be destroyed... Relentlessly hunted down, Paul encounters Elma, an explosive-tempered teenage girl who follows him on his quest for truth through an arid world.

[@HeffnerCoaching]

It's very French in its making

[@francoislebel4085]

A cause de la facture, j'ai d'abord cru à un court métrage de Jean-Pierre Jeunet! Très beau cadrages, images et humour absurde. Le télépathe cherchant refuge dans l'isolement fait penser à un épisode de Star Trek next Generation. En plus absurde 😉

[@bobalicious2696]

Does anyone know what the f this was about? I feel like 15 minutes of my life has been sucked out of me for no reason.

[@kayray4858]

Don’t know what it all meant?, but can I have his car please? There is no parking anywhere in my road 😢 if I had his car I could park it in my garden. I can dream can’t I ?

[@billycarr7446]

Consider moving to the countryside?

[@RucoMedia]

subtitles please

[@markhorton3994]

I have English subtitles. Check your settings

[@donlarocque5157]

Sorry guys. I can barely see and don't speak French.

[@HebaruSan]

Ugh, amazing how much of the viewer's time could be wasted by such a short film. Ban the French from owning cameras. Show, don't tell!

[@AdityaSingh00077]

First viewer 😎😎.....

[@aaronmikejunior7481]

Nah man..u missed by a long shot

[@AdityaSingh00077]

@@aaronmikejunior7481 Nah boy I'm not missed check your clock.....

[@aaronmikejunior7481]

@@AdityaSingh00077 sorry..buh by the time I saw ur text 3 people including me already commented before u. The message before urs was three minutes apart if I remember correctly

[@AdityaSingh00077]

@@aaronmikejunior7481 Ok bro no problem I will try next time......

[@aaronmikejunior7481]

@@AdityaSingh00077 yeah bro

[@ronp5615]

What a flaming waste of my time.

[@KAYLA-m6t6z]

4th

[@olddecimal2736]

❤

[@cosmiccitizen3726]

😅🤣🤣

[@danielwallace1653]

Weak

[@andyschwarm]

That didn't make any sense to me and usually when one of these makes no sense I don't like it but I like this one anyway.

[@andyschwarm]

In my own defense, I had a busy day, still am and like Ye I have seven things on my miind at any time so I may have missed something.

[@dennishill290]

To Infiniti...and..Beyond....! Wait...there's no brakes on this thing....? Lol..!

[@paulgeorge7699]

The scene where she exhales and the wisp of hair flutters...man oh man, that was just the coolest! This is cinema to relish...and I have. Moments of Art on reel, if all my fingers were thumbs, they would be all up!

[@ThomasPCGuruENGINES]

Loved the swig of the Hard Man's go-to drink...milk. ...Oh, and everything else about this :)

[@OldManPaxusYT]

utterly pointless. what a waste of my time

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

✨🪐🚀🪐✨

[@100Jeanluc]

Clearly something lost in translation.

[@owlthepirate5997]

I really liked it, and was getting into it, wondering what the big mystery is, and then it was ruined by the ending! ☹ I mean is he "god", or just born with an extremely crappy superpower? Why does he have to "save the world"? What does his reading thought have anything to do with it? Why did they choose him? How was he expected to save the world by traveling to the "red planet"? There's no one there it seems.. so not sure what the heck they expected of him then? Why has the world there in going to hell? WHAT in gods name was he saving them from???? SO many unanswered questions!!! 🤬 I'm going to stop watching this channel if this all they're going to show.. what a waste of time!

[@scottthorson11]

I can't believe I watched this for 7 minutes before stopping!!!

[@amandailborn]

L’acteur très beau, les paysages et photographie magnifique, le rétro futurisme bien trouvé. Mais quel dommage toute cette sauce française, parler aux caméras, casser la magie, du bla bla continue , la petite histoire d’amour insignificante....à quel moment les français vont comprendre que leur façon de tourner un film est de la merde?

[@Shipwright1918]

Totally escapes the point of the film, but I really liked the car. Retro futuristic goodness.

[@lawrenceveinotte]

8,000,000,000 X 62 kilograms = 496,000,000,000, how much does and ant weigh? i guess it depends if it's on your mothers side or fathers side.

[@marcd1981]

Very well filmed and acted, but I do not see how he saved the Earth. The Moon is heading directly for Earth. He flies a ship directly at the Moon. How does this save the Earth?

[@41divad]

Glad so many enjoyed it A bit in the mold of the 60s sci-fi short stories I'll take coffee in my tea cup

[@CharlesSmith-io9fp]

Now I need to watch the complete movie.

[@JeffAF797]

Brilliant if you pay attention. 🙄

[@liulucy6051]

Let him come back.

[@Robot-pl9ex]

Wow 😮 thank you

[@EileenPCarryEPC]

Interesting and mysterious. No steering wheel necessary in the hoover car tho. 😅

[@cliffontheroad]

Proudly giving a thumbs-down, for yellow captions on a yellow field, among other factors. After 11 hours, the up/down ratio is 3 to 1. Go figure/judge for yourself. 872/292. Thanks to the commentors for explaining things. Seriously

[@BrettShaw]

The only positive aspect of the film is the cinematography. Otherwise, it's an incomprehensible, confusing, boring story.

[@iggyzorro2406]

how french. how brilliant. thank god I could move the cursor past all the soap opera style close ups and get to the non-conclusion. 5 minutes I'll never fet back.

[@angel_machariel]

Audience doesn't seem to understand why these short SciFi movies exist. This short, like most, is just a proof of concept. It doesn't have to make sense nor does it have to be cohesive or have a proper ending. This short is posted 6 days ago but it was made over two years ago. The full movie of this was released 2 years ago and was deemed equally disappointing. But the proof of concept was appreciated by executive producers and so the story was changed but the mixed American-Euro style in a pre-apocalyptic world remained. Next time when you don't understand the story or the ending in any SciFi short on this channel, realize it's only just a proof-of-concept and the making of the full movie depends mostly on internal politics of the executives. The style and content of the movie - including the "awards" it gets - depends on who they have to impress and what they have to prove i.e. FX, sound, mainstream compliance such as some obligatory sexualization, political correctness, simple storyline but great visuals etcetera). Our reaction as a viewer only plays a small role.

[@theprophanephilosopher515]

Why TF would proximity count??? lol, he should just hear EVERYBODY on earth, right?!