Ten minutes to crush a beauty queen dream—bathroom stall poetry at its finest.
It is the small clues in the brightly-coloured and fast-paced film Mis that explain why the Miss Shishi elections come to nothing for Lydia. The ladies' toilets are a fitting stage for the taut world of a Miss election.
Production
Toilet stall as throne room—production design genius.
Acting
Schreurs owns every micro-expression of defeat.
Director
Gwen Eckhaus
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eckhaus shot this as her Netherlands Film Academy graduation project, channeling decades of Dutch beauty pageant culture into ten brutal minutes.
Miss Shishi was a real 1990s Dutch teen pageant; the film's satire landed during actual reality TV boom of 'Big Brother' and 'Idol' culture.
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