Coup du lapin
2026 · 2m
Directed by Maïa Simon, Victoire Marcovitch
Genres: drama, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, surreal, whimsical
One morning, Alma wakes up to find two rabbit teeth in her mouth — and must find her way back to her own beauty.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Two minutes of a woman waking up with rabbit teeth—sound like magical-realism comfort food, right? Wrong: Simon and Marcovitch somehow make body horror feel tender, which is the kind of tonal swerve that makes everyone else's surrealism look like greeting cards.
A precise meditation on transformation and self-recognition that sits comfortably between Ovid and contemporary feminist cinema; the restraint here—what they *don't* explain—is as considered as the surreal image itself.
The genius move is treating the rabbit teeth not as a plot device but as a mirror: Alma's performance shift—the way her face reads the uncanny in the reflection—does more work than the entire magical premise, and that's where the film actually lives.