MORPHO

The scouts

Two minutes about queer girls and insects could've been treacly coming-of-age comfort food, but Gagnerot and Gendre refuse the easy emotional beats—there's something almost austere in how they let silence and observation do the work instead.

The film locates itself in a lineage of tender, formally restrained French cinema that privileges intimacy through negative space; the editing rhythms and compositional choices suggest a sensibility deeply aware of how restraint becomes its own kind of eloquence.

What elevates this from sincere to singular is the decision to make the insects—Jade's obsession—visually present and tactile rather than metaphorical, grounding the romance in something concrete and specific that justifies why these two people find each other in the first place.