En quête de Beauté
2026 · 2m
Directed by Diane Blameble
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Anna and Kiara, two friends with totally opposite visions of beauty, set out on a quest that tests whether beauty can be ugly in another's eyes.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Beauty-as-subjective-conflict is pretty well-trodden territory, and this premise doesn't seem to be arriving with any teeth—the 'opposite visions' setup reads like a high school essay waiting to unfold predictably.
Blameble demonstrates formal awareness in her handling of the coming-of-age rubric, and the two-minute constraint suggests an economy of gesture that places her in conversation with minimalist European shorts; the real question is whether the film earns its contemplative reserve.
What matters here is how Blameble photographs the moment when friendship confronts irreconcilable taste—the specific cut or glance or lighting shift that makes you feel the sting of that incompatibility rather than just hearing it stated, and that decision will determine whether two minutes feels sufficient or reductive.