Frange ou pas frange ?
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alianor Mabrouki
Genres: comedy
A woman wakes up with a marvellous idea: cut herself a fringe.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A two-minute film about a woman cutting bangs shouldn't work as anything but a Instagram skit, but the absurdist commitment here—the way it treats a mundane grooming choice like it's a life-altering philosophical gesture—actually *inverts* what you expect from a premise this slight.
Mabrouki's economy of gesture recalls the French tradition of micro-comedies, where restraint and timing do the formal heavy lifting; there's a lineage here, even if the subject matter is defiantly small.
The entire film hinges on the director's decision to play the internal monologue with complete earnestness against the triviality of the act itself—that tonal friction is what makes two minutes about a haircut feel like a complete argument.