ADONIS
2026 · 2m
Directed by Louna Miot
Genres: drama, experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
A distinguished man enters a Paris butcher's shop and buys a piece of meat; back home, he cuts, prepares and shapes it with almost obsessive precision — but the flesh is not meant to be eaten, only to become a form of beauty only he can perceive.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone expects the meat to be consumed or to rot — Miot refuses both, which is the move — but the film's too formally composed to really *disturb*, which is where I wanted it to go.
This is a film acutely aware of its lineage: the obsessive male gaze refracted through Surrealism and the body-horror tradition, executed with such measured precision in the editing and framing that every cut feels like it's in conversation with something we've seen before and never quite like this.
The decision to keep the camera static during the preparation — letting the hands and the meat do almost all the storytelling — is what makes two minutes feel like a complete world; that restraint is everything.