Miss Sophisticated
2026 · 2m
Directed by Chloé Glevarec-Giannelli
Genres: drama, experimental, LGBTQ+
Tones: contemplative, tense, theatrical
In a theatre dressing room, two women prepare to go on stage; everything opposes them - appearance, relationship to makeup, way of facing the mirror - and in the closed space saturated with reflections a silent tension is born, blurring admiration, rivalry and fascination as the curtain approaches.
Picked by Margot
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Two women, a dressing room, mirrors — sounds like introspective chamber drama, right? Except Glevarec-Giannelli weaponizes the theater space itself, turning reflection into philosophical interrogation, and what could've been a conventional intimacy study becomes something genuinely slippery about who's watching whom.
The dressing room as a formal constraint—walls of mirrors, the approach of curtain call—creates a geometry of tension that recalls Bergman's chamber work, and Glevarec-Giannelli's command of negative space and editing rhythm transforms two minutes into a complete moral argument about performance, desire, and the self.
The decision to let silence do the work—no score, no dialogue, just the sound of makeup application and breathing—means every micro-expression between these two becomes the whole film, and that economy of means is what makes the ambiguity sting.