Beauté fatale jusqu'à la faim
2026 · 2m
Directed by Candice Romano
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
Anna, always too hard on herself, decides she must lose weight, and in the infernal loop she believes she controls everything while she sinks a little deeper each day.
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A two-minute descent into self-destruction wrapped in dark comedy—the premise alone is audacious enough, but Romano resists the easy catharsis; there's no epiphany, just the loop tightening, and that refusal to comfort is genuinely perverse.
Formally precise in its economy: the cyclical structure echoes Buñuel's obsessive narratives, and the tonal balance between melancholy and dark comedy recalls the best of European short tradition—a controlled study in psychological entrapment that knows exactly what it's doing.
In two minutes, Romano isolates the exact moment each day when Anna's agency becomes illusion, and that rhythmic recurrence—the cut that lands just before hope arrives—is the decision that makes a small premise feel inescapable.