| L'axe du mal | |
| Director: | Pascal Lièvre |
| Starring: | Nathalie Bujold Pascal Lièvre |
| Cinematography: | Laurent Carton |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | French |
Axis of Evil (French: L'axe du mal) is a 2004 France-Canada co-production by Pascal Lièvre about a couple declaring their love for each other with the same words United States President George W. Bush used to announce a war on terror.[1]
The short is held in the collections of the Cinémathèque québécoise.[2]
Axis of Evil premiered on 20 September 2004 at the Athens Film Festival. It also screened at the 2004 Oberhausen Short Film Festival and was included in a DVD collection of films shown at the event later that same year.[3] The film has since screened at several other film festivals such as the 2007 MIT Short Film Festival and the 2012 Les Rencontres Internationales du Film Documentaire de Fès.[4] [5]
Reception for the short has been positive.[6] Andrea Toal covered the short for Sight & Sound, noting that it was "hilarious".[7] The short was also praised by Cornelia Fleer of Film - Dienst and Boris Trbic of Metro Magazine, the latter of whom noted that it received a positive audience reception at the St Kilda Film Festival.[8] [9]