Euphorry
2026 · 2m
Directed by Elisa Fiuza
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, melancholic
When a simple first date turns into a nightmare, a young woman self-conscious about her physique chains makeup touch-ups in the toilets, and a vicious circle begins where comparison with others reigns supreme.
Picked by Zoe
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The premise sounds like every anxiety-spiral PSA until you realize Fiuza's actually weaponizing the bathroom mirror as a funhouse — turning self-consciousness into visual repetition that feels genuinely diseased, which is the opposite of the earnest takedown most directors would botch.
A formally precise descent into compulsive behavior, structured around the recurring frame of the mirror and the accumulation of small gestures; the dark comedy lands because Fiuza trusts the escalation rather than explaining the pathology, situating itself squarely in the lineage of body-horror intimacy cinema.
The entire film turns on a single spatial choice — trapping the camera in that bathroom across two minutes, letting the repetition of makeup application become the horror rather than cutting away to release tension — and that commitment to constraint is what makes the psychological claustrophobia actually breathe.