Terminale F
2026 · 2m
Directed by Éric Vincent
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, whimsical
Philosophy students in their final year face an essay on the topic of beauty — the most clichéd subject of all, or perhaps not.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A two-minute essay on beauty could've been the most insufferable thing ever made, but Vincent somehow threads the needle between sincerity and the absurdity of philosophy students pretending they have anything new to say about it—the trick is that he lets both coexist without winking.
Terminale F sits comfortably in the essay-film tradition while respecting the constraint of its form: the whimsy tethers the philosophical weight, and the brevity becomes the form's argument itself—economy as elegance, which is exactly what that subject demands.
The real move here is trusting the students' faces and pauses more than the voiceover; Vincent lets silence do the curation work, turning what could've been precious into something that actually breathes.