Miss Chazelles (Short 2019)

Miss Chazelles: Directed by Thomas Vernay. With Megan Northam, Alice Mazodier, Nicolas Teitgen, Emre Uludag. Clara and Marie are rivals. Clara is the first successor, while Marie won the Chazelles-sur-Lyon Prize. The tension rises between Clara’s friends and Maries’s family, but the girls are ambivalent.

“Greetings again from the darkness. Sometimes the line between rival and friend is not drawn by the participants. Such is the case with Clara and Marie in this community in France. This 21 minute short film comes courtesy of writer-director Thomas Vernay, and reminds us that people are often more similar than different.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eClara (Megan Northam) has just been named as runner-up to Marie (Alice Mazodier) for the Chazelles-sur-Lyon pageant. Clarau0026#39;s friends and family immediately begin a social media assault against Marie, while Marieu0026#39;s family gloats over the victory. Tensions rise between all involved … well except for the girls themselves, who pay little mind.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA simple moment causes a dynamic shift in the relationship between the girls, but the families from either side are not having it. Itu0026#39;s a lesson that pre-dates Shakespeareu0026#39;s u0026quot;Romeo and Julietu0026quot;, and often has nothing to do with love – just common (or maybe not so common) human courtesy.”