DEVENIR UNE IDOLE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Stephanie Palies
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, whimsical
One afternoon, a twenty-year-old borrows a dress found in a wardrobe and invents a life for himself; alone in the apartment, he dreams of being an idol - dancing, letting go, imagining himself in interviews - until, behind the exuberance, the solitude and trouble of a somewhat lost boy searching for his own beauty appear.
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It's a coming-of-age film, sure, but Palies refuses the expected catharsis—that borrowed dress stays borrowed, the idol fantasy collapses into genuine loneliness, and we're left watching a boy fail to become anyone but himself, which is the only subversive move that matters.
There's a deliberate lineage here to the European avant-garde tradition of intimate self-portraiture, where the apartment becomes both stage and confessional; Palies situates this two-minute interior monologue in conversation with cinema's long obsession with performance and authenticity.
The genius is that single held shot during the interview fantasy—the moment the performance cracks and you see his face actually searching for who he is behind the choreography—that's where a two-minute film on a shoestring becomes essential.