le ravage des réseaux
2026 · 2m
Directed by Joseph Rose
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Hannah, a teenager, wakes up scrolling social media and spends most of her free time on these platforms; getting ready, she can find no satisfaction in what she sees in the mirror, pushing her to the limit.
Picked by Zoe
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A two-minute PSA about social media rot—competent, sure, but it's the exact sermon everyone's already heard. There's no weird angle, no subversion, no premise that makes me lean forward and ask 'wait, what?' It's just the mirror scene done sincerely, and sincerity isn't enough when the diagnosis is this obvious.
Rose demonstrates control over visual metaphor and pacing, situating the work within a lineage of mirror-based identity cinema, yet the execution feels dutiful rather than essential—a well-composed essay on a well-trodden theme without the formal or conceptual rigor that would justify its presence among peers.
The discipline is there—two minutes is a brutal constraint—but what lifts this is likely the sound design or the specific moment Hannah's reflection breaks her gaze, that one cut or audio choice that makes the obvious premise *feel* singular instead of recycled; that's where the budget shrewdness lives.