LORA
2026 · 2m
Directed by Jean Badets
Genres: drama, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: dark, melancholic, surreal
Paris, 2065: she wakes in fear; she no longer remembers her name — at least she still has her body. Why does this man seem to know her? Why does that one no longer want her? Why does another stare? Provided she still has her body.
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The amnesia-in-a-dystopia setup screams predictable until Badets flips the real terror: her body isn't hers to keep, and the men circling her aren't mysteries to solve but predators to survive—it's sci-fi body horror that actually earns its dread instead of coasting on premise.
Badets works in the lineage of Oshii and Céline Sciamma, where disembodiment becomes philosophical rather than plot device; the formal restraint—minimal dialogue, held frames that refuse to sensationalize—positions this as serious SF cinema, not thriller spectacle.
Two minutes and the entire film hinges on that single cut from "she still has her body" to "provided she still has her body"—that conditional flip recontextualizes every glance and touch into violation, and on a shoestring Badets does what million-dollar productions miss: one edit that rewires everything.