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2026 · 2m
Directed by Armel Cazedepats
Genres: drama, essay film, satire
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, provocative
Asking what place beauty has on social media, characters obsessed with whether beauty suffices to capture attention — and with 'Pascal's likes' — pass by the beauty of the nature surrounding them.
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Pascal's likes as a structural conceit is clever enough, but the satire lands exactly where you'd expect it to—phones bad, nature good—and that's precisely the consensus move Felix avoids. The real subversion would've been *not* cutting away from the feeds.
Cazedepats inherits the essay-film tradition of Marker and Godard, where montage becomes argument; the formal restraint of a 2-minute runtime against such a capacious philosophical question, and the decision to let beauty *fail* to register on the characters rather than on us, situates this firmly in a lineage of cinema that trusts its form to do the thinking.
The choice to keep the camera on the characters' faces—their studied indifference to the landscape—rather than cutting to beauty shots is what makes this land; that single editing decision transforms what could've been preachy into something genuinely unsettling about attention and presence.