FIDES
2026 · 10m · France
Directed by Alexandre Bagot
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
A young model shoots alone with a charming photographer in his studio as he methodically toys with his position of power and backs her into a corner.
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A single-take photographer-model power-play where the formal constraint — no cuts, no escape — is the entire argument, and the director also plays the photographer, which adds a layer of uncomfortable self-implication.
Single-take with a minimal crew makes the photographer-studio power dynamic viscerally unescapable — the Promising Young Woman / Compliance / Happening reference triangle is serious territory and the formal constraint is the right tool for it. Lopez and Bagot doing the two-hander.
A single continuous take in a photographer's studio forcing the power imbalance to play out in unbroken time — the formal restraint is the point. Director playing the predator in his own film adds an uncomfortable extra layer.