(2010) «2012»
2012 · 4m · España
Directed by Isaki Lacuesta
Genres: drama, experimental, romance
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
A woman is at the center of an experimental romantic drama told in brief, fragmented moments set around the year 2012.
Picked by Margot
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Four minutes of fragmented romantic moments sounds like the kind of precious, formally precious thing I'd usually despise—but Lacuesta's refusal to narrativize, to give us a throughline or even a coherent emotional arc, is genuinely perverse in a way that works.
Lacuesta positions this within a lineage of essayistic, anti-dramatic cinema that owes clear debts to Agnès Varda and contemporary expanded narrative; the fragmentation isn't rupture but a deliberate syntax, each moment edited as discrete meditation on intimacy's impossibility.
The decision to anchor everything in the woman's presence across disconnected scenes—a technical constraint that becomes the film's philosophical argument—transforms what could be sentimental into something austere and nearly documentary.