Le Reflet
2026 · 2m
Directed by Florian Coulon
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A woman, alone at home, tries every day to love her body and see herself as beautiful; through precise rituals — photos, mantras, fittings — she seeks control in the face of a diffuse unease, in a film about body dysmorphia and the vertigo of reflection.
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Body dysmorphia gets the arthouse treatment so often it's become its own cliché — but Coulon's two minutes of obsessive ritual and mirror-vertigo might actually be saying something the introspective indie crowd keeps missing: that the problem isn't the body, it's the *precision* of the looking.
Coulon positions himself within a lineage of experimental portraiture and the formal self-examination of filmmakers like Agnès Varda and Chantal Akerman, using the domestic interior and repetitive gesture as both subject and structure — though the execution sometimes conflates texture with depth.
The singular choice here is the sound design's relationship to the image — those small, almost imperceptible shifts in the acoustic space around each ritual make the 120 seconds feel like a durational work, and it's that aural precision that transforms what could've been therapy-speak into something genuinely unsettling.