-Casting Sauvage-
2026 · 2m
Directed by Carl
Tones: dark, provocative
Marc, a street-casting scout, promises aspiring models contact with the biggest names in fashion — with a single rule: be yourself, and he will spot you in the street.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A street-casting con artist wrapped in the language of authenticity—the premise weaponizes the very thing it claims to celebrate, and that's exactly the kind of darkly perverse inversion that gets mistaken for exploitation until you realize the film knows exactly what it's doing.
The film engages productively with the predatory lineage of modeling recruitment narratives, positioning itself within a tradition of thrillers that anatomize institutional betrayal through formal precision and tonal restraint.
The decision to keep the scout's pitch itself audible—that honeyed voice promising 'just be yourself'—against silent street footage creates the entire moral argument without a single explanatory cut.