5 horas, 39 minutos, 25 segundos
2020 · 23m · España
Directed by Santiago Rindel, Tomás Rojo
Tones: contemplative, tender
When Damián is born with delicate health, a nurse places another baby beside him and he improves instantly; twenty-five years later, he goes in search of that nurse, who hides a great secret.
Picked by Margot
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The premise sounds like magical realism greeting-card sentimentality, but if there's a secret that actually *subverts* the whole 'two babies, one healing' setup, then maybe Rindel and Rojo are playing a deeper game than the logline lets on—I'd need to see it to know if they earn the mystery.
This is precisely the kind of chamber narrative—intimate, temporally precise, built on a revelation architecture—that sits in a lineage with Pialat and early Haneke; the specificity of that title (5 hours, 39 minutes, 25 seconds) suggests filmmakers thinking formally about duration and memory as structure, not just plot.
What matters here is whether they've found the one image or edit or performance beat that explains why two babies in a room, decades apart, could carry the weight of an entire film—that's the decision that either collapses this or makes it breathe.