À JAMAIS BELLE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Juliette Bayle
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
In a beauty salon, senior women prepare themselves — but this ritual conceals a chilling destiny.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Beauty salon as mausoleum—yeah, the subtext is wearing its horror on its sleeve, but Bayle commits to the bit with such formal precision that it almost transcends the premise into something genuinely unsettling rather than just clever.
À Jamais Belle positions itself at the intersection of Buñuelian ritual critique and contemporary body horror, with the salon's mirror-space functioning as both confessional and execution chamber; Bayle's control of rhythm and image composition situates this squarely in a lineage of feminist horror cinema that interrogates beauty culture as memento mori.
The decision to keep the camera glacially still while the women prepare themselves—letting dread accumulate through what *isn't* shown rather than what is—transforms a two-minute runtime into something that feels inevitable and inescapable.