Personnelle
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alain Chardaire
Genres: documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, tender
Through the definitions and truths of others, the film approaches the question of beauty, which remains vague even in the dictionary — and personal to each of us.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A two-minute essay on beauty that refuses to resolve itself—I respect the stubbornness, but it feels like the kind of formally clever thing that makes people nod knowingly without actually *feeling* anything subversive about it.
Chardaire locates himself in the essay film tradition with real precision, letting dictionary definitions and subjective testimony create friction in exactly two minutes—it's the kind of formally rigorous meditation that lingers because it knows when to stop.
The decision to let competing definitions sit alongside personal testimony, unreconciled, is elegant, but I'm hunting for the one technical or performance choice that makes it *sing*—and here the construction feels slightly too assured, too already-arrived-at.