FAIS TOI BELLE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alice
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, romance
Tones: contemplative, tender
On a Sunday morning, while hanging out with her friends, Cléo receives a message from someone she has recently started seeing, and it changes the course of her day.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A text message as narrative hinge in a coming-of-age romance—it's the kind of premise that could curdle into sentimentality in anyone else's hands, but if Alice is playing it straight, I'm suspicious it's doing something weirder with our phone-poisoned attention than we're expecting.
Two minutes is a brutal constraint for emotional architecture, and the contemplative, tender register suggests Alice is working in the lineage of Agnès Varda's small-form intimacies—the question is whether the editing honors that restraint or scrambles it.
The entire film pivots on how a single message lands in a moment of mundane Sunday friendship—if Alice nails the micro-gesture (the pause, the phone tilt, the friend's glance) that makes us feel the before and after in real time, that's the whole film right there.