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2010 · 11m · Francia
Directed by Eleonore Pourriat
Tones: darkly comic, provocative
In a world dominated by women, a man experiences everyday sexism over the course of a single day. The incidents range from casual looks to outright aggression.
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The premise flips the gender oppression script so cleanly it should feel cheap, but Pourriat refuses the easy catharsis—the man's indignation is treated with the same casual dismissal real victims face, which makes the satire genuinely uncomfortable rather than self-congratulatory.
A direct formal response to the language of everyday sexism that's been documented in feminist cinema since the '70s; the editing's restraint—letting each microaggression breathe without editorializing—situates it as a deliberate counter-statement within that discourse.
The film's entire architecture depends on one filmmaking choice: treating the reversed dynamic with the exact same matter-of-fact tone and framing as naturalistic cinema, never winking at the audience, which forces the absurdity to do all the work instead of the direction.