Jolie
2026 · 2m
Directed by Maud Lethielleux
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Lalie and Tonina are beautiful, but not everyone knows it; for one, beauty is a burden - for the other, a gift.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Two minutes on beauty-as-burden versus beauty-as-gift sounds like every coming-of-age platitude ever, but if Lethielleux actually inverts the expected moral weight here, that's a premise worth the contrarian attention.
A tender meditation on feminine beauty and its contradictions—the film positions itself within a lineage of introspective portraiture, though its brief runtime demands the kind of formal precision that separates considered work from competent sketch.
What matters here is likely a single choice—whether it's a glance, a held frame, or how Lethielleux has structured the visual language to make one girl's burden and the other's gift feel like two sides of the same mirror rather than opposites; that distinction is everything in a 2-minute space.