Priorities
2014
Directed by Angela S
Two fashion-obsessed young women appear to have everything in life except love, until one of them falls in love and their glossy, status-driven world begins to change.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's a competent inversion of the fashion-film trope, but the emotional emptiness of status-obsessed characters falling in love is basically the entire premise—there's no subtext, no weird angle, just surface-level irony treated as depth.
Angela S understands the formal language of high fashion cinema and uses it with real sophistication here, letting the gap between glossy exterior and emotional vulnerability speak through mise-en-scène rather than dialogue—it's a film aware of its own visual tradition and what restraint can accomplish.
The decision to keep the couture and aesthetic polish *while* the characters' emotional walls crack is the move that makes this work; a lesser filmmaker would've stripped away the glamour to signal sincerity, but holding both creates something genuinely tender.