The Woman Who Powders Herself

Patrice Bailly constructs the film on a dissonance between delicate animation and a deeply unsettling narrative, relying on cut-out techniques to establish a hypnotic, trance-like rhythm. It explores the horror not of decay, but of eternal imprisonment within a constructed ideal, where the surface consumes all identity.

What lingers after the final frame is a profound sense of claustrophobia within one's own form. Those who tire of literal horror will find a more potent dread in this elegant dissection of the self. — MovieFinder Editorial