Le Privilège des Sirènes
2026 · 2m
Directed by Linnéa Daregard
Genres: crime, dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, sensual
Two sisters rob a jewellery store, armed with their shield against all suspicion: their beauty.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Beauty-as-weapon crime thriller where the real heist is watching two sisters weaponize the exact thing everyone assumes makes them powerless—it's a premise that makes you wince and grin at once, and everyone else would've made it sincere.
Daregard situates herself in a lineage of feminist noir that interrogates the male gaze, though at 2 minutes the formal argument feels more sketch than fully realized statement—the sensuality and crime mechanics deserve more architectural space.
The decision to let the sisters' attractiveness do the labour of the crime (rather than fight it) is smart, but what actually carries it is likely a single moment of complicity or hesitation between them—that's where a two-minute film lives or dies.