ELIZA
2026 · 2m
Directed by Éléonore Bretagne, Florine Paris
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, romance
Eliza and her friends joke about the 'Eliza effect', the urge to post one comment too many, but when Eliza meets Théodore, she experiences the effect herself.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A twee rom-com about posting too much online—exactly the kind of thing every scout will greenlight, which is precisely why it doesn't interest me; the premise is too self-aware of its own cuteness to genuinely subvert anything.
The two-minute structure allows for a cleanly executed reversal arc in the romance-comedy tradition, though the film's self-aware commentary on digital behavior feels more observational than formally interrogative.
The editing rhythm that lets Eliza's internal monologue *overlap* with her typing—creating that specific moment of lost control between thought and action—is what transforms a stock premise into something that lands; that one sound/cut choice is the whole film.