La beauté sauvera le monde
2026 · 2m
Directed by Lucile-Salomé Brisset, Charlotte Dumas
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Anna has always seen the beauty of the world through Victoire's gaze; now that Victoire is gone, she must learn how to see the world around her despite her grief.
Picked by Margot
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Two minutes of elegiac grief cinema—formally impeccable but fundamentally playing it safe, a tender meditation that everyone will nod along with and forget by lunch.
A formally restrained study in how cinema captures the architecture of loss through another's eyes; the restraint itself becomes the form, and the two-minute duration feels earned rather than imposed, situating itself squarely in the lineage of Koreeda and late Haneke.
The entire film pivots on whether we believe Anna can *see* differently after Victoire—and it lives or dies on whatever visual or sonic choice Brisset and Dumas made to signal that shift, the one moment where the technique stops being invisible and becomes the feeling.