Narcisse
2026 · 2m
Directed by Jules Blachier
Genres: dark comedy, fantasy
Tones: darkly comic, mythic
Narcisse thinks himself very beautiful and the flattery he receives only swells his vanity, until Nemesis casts a spell on him — but nothing goes as planned.
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A two-minute myth-hack that does the unthinkable: it actually *fails* Nemesis's revenge, which means it fails the audience's expectation too—and that's precisely why it works. Blachier takes the most predictable setup in Western literature and yanks the rug out with a darkly comic shrug that feels genuinely subversive.
Blachier's economy with the Narcissus legend demonstrates formal discipline—every frame earns its place in a lineage stretching back to Ovid, yet the film's refusal of poetic justice marks a deliberate, considered departure from its source material. The craftsmanship lies not in decoration but in structural restraint.
The sting is in the spell's failure itself: by letting Narcisse slip through Nemesis's fingers, Blachier makes a single narrative choice—the subversion of mythic inevitability—carry the entire emotional weight on a micro-budget, proving that one structural decision can reframe everything.