C'EST QUOI : LA BEAUTÉ ?
2026 · 2m
Directed by Line Meyssonnier
Genres: documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, tender
Several people are asked a simple question — what is beauty? — and answer with memories, family, flowers, rust, and people: a subjective notion, as raw as it is contemplative.
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The scouts
It's a straightforward vox pop about beauty—the kind of thing you'd expect to be treacly and obvious—but Meyssonnier lets the answers breathe without editorializing, which almost feels like a small act of resistance against the twee.
A cleanly executed essay film that sits in a lineage of contemplative portraiture, where the formal restraint—minimal cuts, natural sound, let-them-speak pacing—does the curatorial work of suggesting that beauty is a question without hierarchy.
The singular choice here is the decision to hold silence between answers, trusting the viewer to sit in the gap rather than rushing to the next voice; that restraint in a two-minute format is what transforms collected opinions into something tender.