SUIVANTE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Flavien Cossard
Tones: dark, provocative
Mia, 25, presents herself at a casting to appear on the cover of a magazine for an arrogant director who wants to embellish her and make her his new icon of strength.
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A two-minute gutpunch that flips the power fantasy on its head—the director wants to *make* her into his vision of strength, and Cossard lets that parasitic dynamic rot the entire frame. Exactly the kind of provocative inversion that makes people uncomfortable because it's true.
Cossard operates within a lineage of feminist cinema interrogating the male gaze, but the satire lands with such compressed force that it risks collapsing into didacticism; the craft here is restraint—what isn't shown matters as much as what is.
The pivot is a single directorial choice: the moment where we realize the 'embellishment' isn't flattery but erasure, and suddenly the casting becomes predation. That tonal flip, achieved in under 120 seconds with minimal resources, is why this works.