Belle à Croquer
2026 · 2m
Directed by Dadou
Genres: dark comedy, fantasy, horror
Tones: dark, provocative, surreal
At a strange soirée, a princess is delivered to the jaws of four aristocratic men; mixing fairy tale and horror, the film overturns the accepted image of the obedient, docile princess.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally, a film that takes the princess myth and doesn't just flip it—it devours it whole, literally. Two minutes of pure subversion that makes every other 'dark take on fairy tales' look like cowardly decoration.
Dadou's compression of the grotesque feast into such brevity demonstrates formal control, though the film's provocation risks eclipsing its place within horror-fantasy lineage—it gestures toward Švankmajer and Jarman but hasn't yet earned its own critical conversation.
The sound design choice—that specific moment when refinement and appetite collide in the audio mix—is what transforms what could be mere shock value into something genuinely unsettling and precise.