MOCHETÉES
2026 · 2m
Directed by Manon Sardain
Genres: documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, tender
Seven women testify about confronting their bodies with conformism: the standards we compare ourselves to across a lifetime, the moulds we choose to fit, and the long attempt to accept our bodies' singularities and free ourselves from the aesthetic ideal.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's a seven-voice essay on body conformism—formally restrained, thematically sincere—which means it's exactly the kind of consensus pick that makes Felix's skin crawl; the subversion here is so polite it nearly disappears.
Sardain locates herself in a lineage of feminist essay cinema (Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman) where testimony becomes form, and the editing rhythm—pausing for breath between confessions—shows the rigor of someone who understands that restraint is the hardest craft choice.
The singular move is the decision to let silences breathe between testimonies rather than layer them; that structural choice transforms seven discrete voices into a cumulative meditation on time and acceptance that a busier edit would've rushed straight past.