CONTACT
2026 · 2m
Directed by Louise Molinaro, Bruno Delahaye
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
Michael crosses paths with a woman of striking beauty and, captivated, dares to approach her — but behind the beauty hides a cold, haughty, contemptuous personality. When a passerby recognises Michael and asks for a selfie, the woman instantly changes her attitude; lucid, Michael refuses contact in turn, sending her back the image she showed of herself.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A two-minute mirror trap that flips the beauty-meets-stranger trope into a contempt spiral — the selfie act as the hinge that exposes vanity's desperation is genuinely perverse, and most scouts would've seen "dark satire about shallow people" and moved on.
The formal inversion at the center—switching who extends and withdraws contact—recalls Bresson's interest in surface versus interiority, though the satire lands a touch broad for the restraint the piece otherwise commands.
That final refusal, Michael's mirror-image rejection, works because the directors trusted the performance to stay level through the personality flip; the whole film pivots on the actress's ability to shift without overselling the contempt.