Perfectyne
2026 · 2m
Directed by Lenny Lannes, Titien Jau
Genres: coming-of-age, romance, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
In a world where a pill promises to reveal a perfect, universal beauty, a young man hesitates to conform; as all of society seems to have adopted this idealised vision, meeting a young woman shakes his certainties and forces an intimate choice between artificial beauty and the world as it is.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a competent sci-fi romance, sure, but the premise—universal beauty pill, resistance through doubt—lands exactly where you'd expect it to. The 'artificial vs. real' dialectic has been done to death, and Lannes and Jau don't seem interested in subverting it, just illustrating it tenderly.
A formally restrained meditation on beauty and conformity that positions itself within the sci-fi romance tradition with real precision; the two-minute constraint forces a crystalline narrative economy and the melancholic tone suggests filmmakers aware of their lineage—something to unpack over coffee.
The film hinges entirely on the moment the woman appears—that single encounter where certainty fractures—and the directors nail it by choosing understatement over revelation, letting the young man's hesitation register in his face rather than exposition; it's a small, specific decision that transforms the whole thing from concept into genuine feeling.