Je me méfie de la beauté
2026 · 2m
Directed by Anne-Sophie Vasseur
Genres: comedy, romance, satire
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, tender
A stand-up comedian undermined by his past love affairs chooses to write a sketch attacking the value 'beauty' — until he meets one of the women in his audience.
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A comedian weaponizing philosophy against romance is the kind of premise that could collapse into saccharine disaster, but Vasseur's refusal to let the sketch-within-the-film become the easy punchline keeps this genuinely subversive—the real attack isn't on beauty, it's on the cowardice of using ideology as armor.
Vasseur positions this firmly within the lineage of romantic comedies that weaponize performance—think Linklater's Before trilogy—where the formal constraint of the stand-up frame becomes the syntax through which intimacy can actually be negotiated.
The entire film pivots on that single moment of audience recognition—the choice to have her actually *be there* rather than exist as memory or regret—and it's that geometric precision that transforms what could've been a rom-com sketch into something structurally elegant and genuinely felt.