Parfaite et pure
2026 · 2m
Directed by Mathieu Seclet
Genres: drama, experimental, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
After the end of Snow White's tale, the film follows the fate of the magic mirror, questioning our obsession with beauty and the gaze of others.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Subverting a fairy tale by centering the mirror's consciousness is clever enough, but it lands too safely in 'beauty standards bad'—the experimental wrapper doesn't disguise a fundamentally cautionary tale that most festivals have already made peace with.
Seclet's formal gambit of reframing the mirror as narrative subject positions itself thoughtfully within a lineage of revisionist fairy tale cinema, using the conceit to interrogate the voyeuristic gaze itself—this is the kind of short that justifies a 20-minute programmer conversation about point-of-view and complicity.
The decision to make the mirror's reflective surface the actual locus of drama rather than just a plot device is elegant, and there's likely one moment of formal precision—a reflection, a cut, a visual rhyme—where that single choice justifies the whole premise.