Plus beau que jamais
2026 · 2m
Directed by Jeff Dias
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, melancholic
Richard, a broke artist, is about to sell one of his works at last. But his wife decides to leave him at the very moment he is about to close the sale of his life.
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The timing gimmick is almost too neat—wife leaves exactly as the sale closes—but Dias leans into the absurdity hard enough that it stops being cute and becomes genuinely unsettling, which is the only way this premise survives.
A compact study in domestic tragedy that recalls the tonal precision of early Koreeda, though the dark comedy undercuts the melancholy in ways that feel more earnest than ironic—the editing rhythm is what sells the collision between these two registers.
Two minutes to crater an entire life, and Dias makes the wife's exit the hinge: that single decision to leave *now* rather than later—not the sale itself—is what transforms this from anecdote into genuine stakes, and that specificity of timing is everything.