Ma beauté à travers son regard
2026 · 2m
Directed by Ambre Jaladon
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
At a nightclub, Lise, 22, believes she has found the ideal man in Elie; fascinated, she watches him while confronting her own complexes and her sense of inferiority before other women, until the romantic illusion gives way to an intimate ordeal and the beginning of an essential self-awareness.
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Two minutes to dismantle the fantasy of desire and self-loathing in a nightclub—solid premise, but Jaladon plays it too tenderly when the ordeal demands teeth; the film whispers where it should break something.
A formally composed descent into romantic delusion that recalls the French introspective tradition; the interplay between Lise's gaze and her internal fracturing is the work of a director conscious of cinema's ability to collapse interiority into frame.
The camera's refusal to flatter Lise—holding her face through moments of doubt and recognition—is the single choice that transforms what could be familiar coming-of-age material into something unflinching and necessary.