65.7
2026 · 2m
Directed by Christophe Chemin
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
In a closed space, a man confronts his reflection, the scales and his own limits, in a sensory, physical experience of dysmorphia where the body becomes a silent battlefield.
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Body-horror introspection dressed up in experimental drag—competent, sure, but the dysmorphia angle feels like it's checking boxes rather than upending them; I've seen the mirror-as-battleground move too many times to call it subversive.
A formally controlled descent into somatic anxiety that understands its lineage—echoes of Tarkovsky's inward gaze and contemporary body cinema—executed with restraint and a clear visual grammar across its two minutes.
The decision to let the scale itself become a character, a tool of measurement that refuses to resolve, transforms what could've been straightforward body-image narrative into something genuinely unsettling; that object work carries the whole emotional weight.