100 de perdón
2013 · 17m · Colombia
Directed by Carlos Ortíz Alarcón
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Miguel is an adult man who lives in a humble boarding house; he looks for employment to pay his debts and be able to give himself his tastes, however, due to his age his objective is frustrated, and he will have to look for a way out of his problem.
Picked by Zoe
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A middle-aged man in debt looking for work sounds like the setup for every social realist drama ever made—and that's exactly what we get, which means Felix is sitting this one out.
There's a quiet formalism at work here, a deliberate pacing that situates itself in the Latin American cinema of restraint; the boarding house becomes a space of accumulated small failures, observed with the kind of patient framing that rewards close attention.
The specificity lives in how Ortíz Alarcón lets Miguel's desperation accumulate through texture and routine rather than plot—a single performance choice, a lingering shot of hands counting pesos, transforms what could be rote social commentary into something tactile and lived.