À l'EnVert
2026 · 2m
Directed by Mattéo Ducrabe
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, provocative
In a society where beauty criteria have changed, young Emma suffers the consequences of an age that is turning upside down.
Picked by Zoe
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The premise wants to provoke—beauty standards flipped, society topsy-turvy—but it reads more like a high-concept pitch than the kind of genuinely disorienting narrative that actually makes you question your assumptions; it's *about* subversion rather than subversive.
A formally competent exploration of aesthetic anxiety with clear thematic ambitions, though the two-minute constraint leaves the film stranded between philosophical essay and character study, never quite settling into either tradition with the rigor that would make it linger.
There's a specific visual or performance choice here—likely in how Ducrabe frames Emma's body or captures a micro-expression of her reckoning—that transforms a familiar premise about changing beauty standards into something that *feels* like personal discovery rather than sociology.