Écharpée
2026 · 2m
Directed by Pauline Dusage
Genres: coming-of-age, dark comedy, thriller
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, tense
A red-haired young woman has always dreamed of becoming a beauty queen. But the ceremony will not go as planned — and is she ready to do anything for the crown?
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A beauty pageant film that actually *subverts* the genre instead of genuflecting to it — Dusage yanks the camera sideways just when you expect the triumph shot, and suddenly you're asking uncomfortable questions about ambition and complicity that no one's supposed to ask in two minutes.
Dusage demonstrates formal control in miniature, threading the needle between satire and genuine menace with the precision of someone who's studied how tone operates in classical cinema; the editing rhythm mirrors the heroine's psychological unraveling with admirable restraint.
That tonal pivot — the moment the film abandons pageant-film conventions and reveals its true genre — lands because Dusage commits entirely to the protagonist's single-minded focus in close-up, letting her face become the whole argument without needing exposition or explanation.