LESS IS MORE
2026 · 2m
Directed by André Rodrigues Lopes
Tones: contemplative, tender, whimsical
By day Corinne works in a telecom call centre; by night she directs an amateur theatre troupe as clumsy as it is endearing.
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The dual-life premise wants to be quirky but lands safely in indie-dramedy territory—what could've been a subversive deconstruction of performance vs. authenticity settles for being charming instead.
A formally accomplished portrait of creative life in constraint, executing the soft-focus juxtaposition of service work and artistic fulfillment with the measured tone of contemporary European cinema.
That choice to let the theatre rehearsals stay genuinely messy and unpolished—refusing to make them 'cinematic'—is what makes this work; it's the specificity of watching amateurs fail that transforms what could be a greeting-card concept into something real.