Si je puis me permettre...
2026 · 2m
Directed by Marianne Fisch
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
Margot is fishing for compliments about her looks; before her partner Hannah can even answer, a stranger offers his unsolicited opinion, and Margot collides with the absurdity of beauty standards — while Hannah, who knows love cannot be graded, refuses to play that game.
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The premise *looks* like it's going to be a PSA about unsolicited opinions—predictable, preachy—but then Fisch lets the absurdity breathe, lets Hannah's refusal to play the compliment game become the real subversion. It's a film that trusts its audience to find the joke without explaining it.
Fisch positions this squarely in the lineage of relationship comedies that interrogate social scripts—Éric Rohmer's conversational precision meets contemporary feminist critique—with the formal restraint to let dialogue and reaction do the philosophical work.
The masterstroke is Hannah's silence in the face of Margot's fishing; it's a single performance choice—a refusal to participate—that reframes the entire power dynamic and turns what could've been a morality tale into something genuinely tender and funny.