LA PLUS BELLE PERSONNE DU MONDE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Arthur Bacquey
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
A young woman overflowing with self-confidence undergoes a forced introspection at the hairdresser's — the kind of visit people often leave disappointed.
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The hairdresser's chair as a confessional booth for the self-assured is genuinely perverse—a two-minute demolition of vanity dressed up as salon comedy. Most people would've made this saccharine; Bacquey makes it sting.
A taut exercise in the comedy-of-discomfort tradition, executing the familiar beat of confidence meeting deflation with formal precision—the mirror work and editing rhythms suggest a director aware of what he's inherited and how to spend it wisely.
The film lives in that single decision to keep the protagonist's face mostly *away* from the mirror until the moment it matters—a spatial choice that transforms a premise about self-image into something genuinely about the gap between who we think we are and what we're forced to see.