Fais un effort
2026 · 2m
Directed by Laura Santos Bernard
Fareen lives a day like any other, except that tonight she meets her boyfriend's parents — and so she gets ready.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A two-minute rom-com about getting ready for the in-laws? Pass—unless the film itself is the joke, which it isn't, so it's just a perfectly competent thing that nobody needed to see.
Bernard understands the grammar of romantic comedy and executes it with clean efficiency, though the form doesn't quite break new ground—solid craft in service of familiar sentiment.
The specificity of how Bernard tracks Fareen's preparations—a single gesture, a moment of hesitation before the mirror—transforms what could be rote into something that feels genuinely lived and tender in those two minutes.