L'Aiguille
2026 · 2m
Directed by Grégory Mottin
Genres: horror, satire, thriller
Tones: dark, darkly comic, provocative
In a world dictated by beauty and the use of artifice to measure up, an old surgeon, fired for having disfigured one of his patients, decides to take his revenge and show everyone his vision of beauty by disfiguring those who have used cosmetic surgery.
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A surgeon weaponizes his own failure into a mirror held up to beauty culture's grotesquerie—it's revenge-as-critique with enough formal perversity to make you uncomfortable about what you're rooting for, which is exactly where satire should live.
Mottin situates this squarely in the body-horror tradition while maintaining a precise tonal balance between thriller mechanics and moral provocation; the two-minute constraint demands economical editing that respects the premise's philosophical weight.
The singular choice here is tonal—the film commits to darkly comic distance rather than squeamish viscera, which means everything lands on performance nuance and the surgeon's gaze; that restraint in a 120-second frame is what makes the satire actually cut.