Le beau monde
2026 · 2m
Directed by Sophie Oger
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Alain lives on the street, in the heart of a city in celebration. Over the course of one winter night, his story questions our relationship to beauty, indifference and humanity.
Picked by Margot
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Two minutes on a homeless man during a city celebration is exactly the kind of earnest poverty-as-mirror premise that makes me want to walk out—unless Oger's actually doing something weirder with it than the logline suggests, in which case I'm intrigued despite myself.
Oger positions this within a lineage of humanist cinema that asks what we owe to invisible bodies in public space; the constraint of a single winter night and the formal tension between spectacle and indifference suggests a filmmaker aware of her own compositional choices.
Two minutes is punishing for this material, so everything hinges on whether Oger found one cutting decision or a sound design moment that transforms the gap between Alain and the celebration from sentiment into something that actually lands.