Le trait de trop
2026 · 2m
Directed by Zoé Feingold, Elsa Hochberg -
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
Despite every tutorial, Lou cannot manage her eyeliner stroke; Jules steps in with fingers covered in fries and sauce, and the car slowly becomes their experimental laboratory.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Two minutes of eyeliner failure sounds like a festival circuit cliché until the fries show up—then suddenly you're watching a film that knows exactly how subversive it is to make intimacy look like a greasy accident. Feingold and Hochberg understand that the premise's weirdness only lands if you commit to it like it's not weird at all.
The formal constraint—a single car, a single failed gesture repeated until it becomes something else—recalls the playful minimalism of early Varda, though the execution here trades lyrical observation for something more tactile and deliberately silly. It's a small film with clear lineage and clearer control.
The decision to let sauce and fingers do what brushes cannot is the whole thing: it's not a gimmick, it's the recognition that sometimes the tool matters less than who's holding it, and that reframe—shot and cut with absolute confidence in a two-minute space—is what transforms a sketch into something real.