La Plus belle femme du monde
2026 · 2m
Directed by Mélanie Dagnet
Three men share one conviction: each believes he is sleeping with the most beautiful woman in the world.
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The premise is delicious subversion—three delusional men, each convinced *his* lover is the world's most beautiful, which isn't romance or comedy but a perfect Venn diagram of both imploding at once. Dagnet's betting everything on the absurdist mathematics of ego, and it's the kind of structured stupidity that makes you angry other people didn't think of it first.
A tightly constructed thought experiment that echoes the philosophical comedies of Tati and early Rohmer—the formal constraint (three men, one shared delusion) disciplines the entire piece into something almost crystalline. The brevity here isn't laziness but precision: two minutes is exactly how long this premise can breathe before collapsing into its own contradiction.
What works is the decision to stay *inside* each man's perspective equally rather than winking at the audience—no cutaway to reality, no 'reveal' of who's actually beautiful. That restraint, that refusal to break the spell with conventional comedic irony, is what transforms a high-concept joke into something that actually lands.