Miss Boté
2026 · 2m
Directed by Léna Le Tessier
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A young woman eagerly awaits the opening of entries for a famous beauty contest, certain that everything finally aligns — until she hits the minimum height requirement she doesn't meet, and improvises a solution as radical as it is absurd.
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The scouts
A two-minute film that takes the beauty pageant premise—sacrosanct, inevitable, *boring*—and detonates it with a solution so absurd it becomes genuinely subversive; Le Tessier's willingness to follow that logic all the way down is exactly the kind of uncompromising weirdness that makes you wonder why more comedies don't go there.
Le Tessier demonstrates formal control in how precisely the editing builds anticipation before the reveal, situating this within a lineage of absurdist satire that traces back through Buñuel's logic of constraint; the economy of the form makes every cut count.
The genius move here is the commitment to the protagonist's solution without winking—Zoe nails a performance choice that could tip into parody but instead stays grounded, which transforms what could've been a shallow gag into something actually unsettling and alive.