LA BEAUTÉ D'ÊTRE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Rachel Kerbellec
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
A man absorbed in his daily routine is ambushed by his own thoughts, as an overwhelming experience carries him toward an unexpected revelation.
Picked by Zoe
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Two minutes of a guy thinking too hard—sounds like therapy, not cinema—but Kerbellec's betting everything on the surreal rupture, the moment routine cracks open, and honestly she might pull it off by refusing to explain what's happening.
A precise distillation of the interior-monologue tradition, executed with formal restraint; the contemplative register feels indebted to the European experimental lineage, though whether the ambush lands depends entirely on the editing's tempo and the director's discipline around abstraction.
The precision here lives in how Kerbellec lets the 'overwhelming experience' arrive through sound and rhythm rather than exposition—that single decision to trust the audience's nervous system over plot machinery transforms a routine-into-revelation premise into something that actually breathes.