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2026 · 2m
Directed by Clément Durochat
Genres: dark comedy, satire, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
An app, two friends, and some very strange beauty criteria.
Picked by Felix
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Two minutes of an app literally reversing beauty standards—the kind of premise that sounds like a tweet until you realize it's asking us to swallow our own disgust, and somehow that *is* the joke. Margot would call it blunt; I call it exactly the subversive jab that makes people uncomfortable enough to actually think.
A sharp satirical conceit executed with formal economy, though the brevity risks collapsing nuance into provocation—the lineage here feels closer to Dilworth's deadpan tech absurdism than sustained tonal control, which limits its argumentative depth.
The real move isn't the app premise itself, it's whatever Durochat chose to *show* versus *not* show in those two minutes—whether it's a reaction cut, a specific detail of the interface, or the moment one friend realizes they're looking at themselves differently. That's where the satire either lands or falls apart.