BEAUTY ATTACKS
2026 · 2m
Directed by Jeanne Degois, Edith Renard
Genres: action, comedy, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
When very ugly aliens decide humans are very ugly too, SuperMeuf — who had warned them this really was not the moment to annoy her — has had enough.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Two French directors walk into sci-fi comedy and somehow make the least sexy premise imaginable—mutual aesthetic revulsion between species—actually *work* as absurdist rebellion; the fact that SuperMeuf's rage is the only sane response to mutual ugliness is exactly the kind of premise that makes consensus critics uncomfortable, which means it's probably genius.
The film's economy of gesture and its refusal to resolve the absurdist collision between cosmic villainy and domestic exasperation shows a lineage with Tati's comic timing and European nouvelle vague constraint, though the whimsical tone occasionally undercuts the formal precision of its visual composition.
The single choice that anchors this—making SuperMeuf's warning at the film's top the emotional throughline rather than just a setup—transforms what could've been a throwaway premise into something with actual stakes, and that one structural decision justifies every pixel of the 2-minute runtime.