Hors Cadre
2026 · 2m
Directed by Juliette Martin
Genres: coming-of-age, LGBTQ+, romance
Tones: contemplative, tender, whimsical
On the evening of her first kiss with a woman, Romane interrupts reality to make a perfect scene of it — before rediscovering the beauty of the moment.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A queer coming-of-age romance that *interrupts itself* — meta enough to be interesting, but ultimately it resolves into exactly the tender beat everyone expected, which feels like the film losing its nerve right when it could've stayed weird.
Martin's framing of the interrupted moment recalls the self-aware lyricism of French new wave portraiture, and the editing rhythm between constructed scene and lived experience demonstrates a assured understanding of how form articulates emotional truth.
The decision to literalize Romane's perfectionism as a pause in reality—then have her choose the uncontrolled moment instead—lives entirely in that single cut back to the unfiltered kiss, which is where the whole film's economy of gesture actually pays off.