La Cerise
2026 · 2m
Directed by Coline Verna-Loupiac
Genres: dark comedy, drama, satire
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, theatrical
Marianne, 52, seems cast in the role of the perfect little housewife — until a simple cake to decorate unearths in her emotions she knew nothing about, in a satirical portrait of women's anger and the burning urge, sometimes, to throw it all away.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A housewife-satire that actually *means* it—Verna-Loupiac doesn't wink at the premise, she detonates it through two minutes of escalating cake-related rage that somehow becomes a manifesto. Most scouts would file this under 'dark comedy'; Felix sees subversion.
The theatrical restraint here is exquisite—a 52-year-old woman and a dessert as the entire stage for examining feminine domesticity, shot with the composed precision of someone who knows exactly which tradition she's interrogating and how to crack it open.
What lands this is the decision to make the anger *physical* rather than verbal—watching Marianne's hands move through the cake ritual is where the real performance lives, and it's that specific choreography of suppressed rage that transforms a two-minute premise into something that stays with you.