La fabrique au monstre
2026 · 2m
Directed by Louis Macquart
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, dark
Anya is forced to leave childhood and enter adulthood through a series of seemingly ordinary situations marked by violence, contempt and incomprehension, in a world where beauty is never a gift but an imposed currency.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two minutes of a girl getting systematically dismantled by the world—no redemption arc, no cathartic breakdown, just the machinery of it. Most scouts want their coming-of-age stories to *mean* something; Macquart's just documents the damage and walks away.
Macquart's formal restraint here—the way he lets ordinary cruelty accumulate without underlining it—places this squarely in a lineage of European allegorical cinema that treats girlhood as a site of structural violence. The editing knows exactly when *not* to cut.
The precision is in what Macquart withholds: no swelling score, no close-ups of tears, just Anya's face registering contempt and incomprehension in real time. That refusal to sentimentalize is the entire film.