Sous son regard
2026 · 2m
Directed by Lou Dieguez
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, provocative
On television, a magnified film-noir femme fatale holds a man's gaze, while in their living room a slumped couple discuss her — a conversation that exposes the standards and judgements imposed on women's beauty.
Picked by Margot
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It's a neat idea—film-noir seduction meets living-room critique—but the premise does most of the heavy lifting, and the execution feels like it knows exactly what it wants to say before the first frame lands. Nothing here surprises or resists; it just illustrates.
Dieguez situates this squarely in the essay-film tradition while maintaining real formal control: the split between screen and sofa becomes a studied commentary on the male gaze itself, and the measured pacing suggests a director thinking carefully about how cinema constructs and judges women's bodies.
The single choice that matters is the sound design—that magnified close-up on the TV paired against the muted domesticity of the couple's conversation creates the entire argument without a word of narration, and it's the kind of restraint that makes two minutes feel like it cost nothing to make and everything to earn.