Tu es la beauté (tuer la beauté)
2026 · 2m
Directed by Emma Bonnet, Nina Delpech, Camille Ferrandon, Jonathan Premke
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: dark, provocative
As Nina and Emma get ready to join their friends at a party, questions about their appearance plague them - what place is left for the one who is the friend of such a pure beauty? - before they plunge into the heart of the wildest party.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Four directors collaborating on a 2-minute provocation about beauty and female friendship should feel scattered, but instead it lands like a provocation grenade—the fact that it resists easy interpretation about whether it's critique or complicity is exactly why it works.
The film sits uncomfortably between psychological realism and party-scene abstraction, which is either formally ambitious or formally uncertain; the editing rhythm suggests intentionality, though the lineage it's claiming—coming-of-age malaise, female gaze cinema—remains somewhat unresolved.
In two minutes, the directors make the crucial choice to let the anxiety live in the *space between* the mirror-moment introspection and the party itself, using sound design and pacing to collapse that distance rather than resolve it—that single structural intuition transforms what could be a PSA into something genuinely unsettling.