Mon Coeur ne fonctionne plus
2026 · 2m
Directed by Maxime Boche
Genres: dark comedy, fantasy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
In a society where physical appearance is defined by imposed norms, the very embodiment of those norms finds itself in a world where everyone is ugly.
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Finally—a film that inverts the whole beauty-industrial complex and watches it implode with zero sentimentality. Two minutes of pure subversive glee; the kind of premise that makes you genuinely uncomfortable before you realize you're laughing.
A precise inversion of the carnival/outsider trope with roots in German Expressionism and contemporary body-horror satire; the economy of its execution demands careful attention to how Boche structures the visual argument.
The real move here is the tonal control—Boche commits fully to the absurdism without winking, letting the discomfort sit long enough that the dark comedy lands like a punch rather than a joke.