Morning Routine
2026 · 2m
Directed by Lou Bordat
Tones: contemplative, whimsical
Everyone has their own morning routine, and Esther's is perfectly timed to become the best version of herself. But after years of repeating the same gestures, this morning will be different — and by noon, her life will have taken an entirely different turn.
Picked by Zoe
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The premise reads like a greeting card—woman's routine disrupted, life changes, very Eat Pray Love—but I'd need to see if Bordat actually subverts the epiphany narrative or just leans into it with a wink.
A cleanly executed exploration of ritual and rupture, though the execution hinges on whether the formal control of those repeated gestures carries enough compositional weight to justify the tonal pivot at noon.
Two minutes is brutal, and Bordat's bet here is probably everything on a single moment—maybe the exact instant Esther deviates from the routine, or a sound design choice that tips from mundane to uncanny—that makes that life-shift land instead of feel schematic.