A Woman Eats
8m · USA
Directed by Sam Reiss
Genres: dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
A model on a fashion editorial shoot endures questions from the director and client that escalate from innocuous to invasive to outright surreal. Still-life staging, deadpan performances, satire of the creative-industry power game.
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The scouts
Industry satire that doesn't flinch and doesn't moralize — the camera just stays on Frances Li's face and lets the rot reveal itself. Seven minutes well spent.
A fashion shoot framed as still life — Reiss weaponizes the model's enforced stillness so discomfort has nowhere to go. Ostlund's The Square compressed to seven minutes, persuasively.
A fashion shoot framed as still-life painting where the model's stillness is the trap — she can't move, so the discomfort has nowhere to go. That formal constraint is the entire engine and it's a strong one.