Beautés
2026 · 2m
Directed by Louise Molière
In a costume workshop, a poetic and funny encounter unfolds between a bewitching star and a clumsy stagehand.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Two minutes of a star and stagehand in a costume shop sounds like every rom-com meet-cute ever filmed—which is exactly why Molière probably subverts it into something genuinely weird, and I'm frustrated I can't confirm that bet from the premise alone.
The whimsy-and-tenderness register recalls a lineage of French cinema's lighter touch—Vigo, Tati's choreography of mundane spaces—and the costume workshop as mise-en-scène suggests Molière understands how production design can carry narrative weight.
A two-minute window between a star and stagehand lives or dies on the exact moment they connect; I'm banking on Molière having found one specific gesture or glance—a fumble recovered with grace, a costume adjustment that means everything—that transforms 'bewitching' from casting into earned magic.