Du rose et des paillettes
2026 · 2m
Directed by Laura Storni
Genres: documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, tender
Made up with a pink flower and glitter, Ketty tells why this is the first time she has known this experience.
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A two-minute essay on makeup and vulnerability that could've been saccharine feels genuinely strange—Storni refuses the obvious emotional beat and lets Ketty's glitter sit there, uncommented, which is either radical restraint or total indifference, and I'm still not sure which.
Storni positions this modest portrait within a lineage of essayistic documentary that privileges presence over narrative arc, and the formal decision to let the beauty ritual frame the confession—rather than interrupt it—shows a curator's hand at work.
The entire film hinges on Storni's choice to shoot Ketty mid-transformation rather than before-and-after: that decision to collapse the cosmetic act into the emotional revelation is what makes two minutes of someone applying makeup feel like an excavation.