Que dirais-tu ?
2026 · 2m
Directed by Laureen Keravec
Genres: essay film, experimental, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, mythic, surreal
An artist questions Beauty — what has been made of it through the ages, and would she agree with all of it? Her questioning ends up invoking Beauty itself, and Beauty answers her.
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Beauty answering back to her questioner is genuinely perverse—it flips the essay film into something almost confrontational, which should be boring but somehow isn't; Keravec's refusal to let the premise stay intellectual is exactly the kind of subversion that sneaks past you.
A film that knows it's in dialogue with centuries of aesthetic philosophy while remaining formally playful—the invocation of Beauty as a speaking entity grounds the piece in a rich tradition of personification while the essay-to-fantasy pivot shows real compositional control and risk.
The choice to make Beauty a presence rather than an abstraction is deceptively small, but it transforms a meditative 2-minute piece into something that actually *answers* rather than simply questions, and that tonal inversion does all the heavy lifting.