MA BEAUTÉ
2026 · 2m
Directed by Lola Oliveras
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
As Éléonor and her mother prepare to face a tragic event, a suspended moment of silences and glances leads her to realize that beauty is not what she was always taught it was.
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Two minutes of glances and silence sounds like the exact kind of restraint-as-gimmick that usually bores me senseless, but Oliveras somehow uses that void to interrogate beauty standards without preaching—it's subversive precisely because nothing explodes.
A formally exquisite miniature that trusts cinema's oldest language—the look, the pause—to redefine a coming-of-age threshold; the restraint recalls Haneke's economy of gesture, and there's real lineage in how it lets negative space do the moral work.
The entire film pivots on that single choice to let the camera sit on Éléonor's face in the moment of realization rather than cut away—two minutes suddenly becomes immense because Oliveras refuses the easy edit.