BE PRETTY
2026 · 2m
Directed by Briséis Beaumont
Tones: contemplative, dark
In a society where aestheticism has become marketing, Nina is treated as a product and no longer knows who she is, or what else she could be besides beautiful.
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A satire about commodified beauty that actually commits to the bit—no winking, no safety net—which makes it genuinely unsettling instead of preachy, the kind of premise that could've been obvious but Beaumont refuses to make it easy.
The film's restraint and two-minute discipline recall the precise social portraiture of mid-career Deborah Needleman or early Lynne Ramsay; there's a formal awareness here about how editing and sound design can compress an entire critique into a sustained visual argument.
What makes this work is the decision to treat Nina's commodification not as dialogue or exposition but as a sensory experience—the sound design isolates her interiority while everything visual reduces her to product, and that tonal split does all the thematic lifting in under two minutes.