À TRAVERS SES YEUX
2026 · 2m
Directed by Léo Rigny
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, provocative
Under cover of a beauty contest, Kira confronts the violence of the norms imposed by our era, each remark echoing society's judgements on bodies, until it becomes essential to redefine what being 'beautiful' really means.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Beauty pageant as vessel for interrogating bodily norms is conceptually solid, but the execution feels too earnest and familiar—it wants to provoke without the formal strangeness that would actually make you squirm.
Rigny positions himself in a lineage of feminist cinema that weaponizes spectacle against itself, and the restraint in the editing—letting remarks accumulate rather than puncture—shows a filmmaker conversant with how form and critique interlock.
The choice to let the audience *hear* every whispered judgment without cutting away creates this suffocating pressure that a longer film would dilute; two minutes of unbroken social violence is exactly the constraint that makes it sting.