Actitud de persona
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Virginia Jabón
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
In an age of instant communication, nobody goes near the man crying in the center of Madrid.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise wants to be provocative—a man weeping while the world scrolls past—but it lands as earnest social critique rather than the genuinely destabilizing idea it could've been; satire needs sharper teeth or stranger contradictions to earn that label.
Jabón situates this squarely in the lineage of European social realism and contemporary indifference narratives, with the discipline to hold a single image and let the absence of intervention do the formal work.
The decision to film this in real Madrid streets—with actual pedestrians refusing to engage—creates an unsettling friction between performance and documentary that a studio setup could never manufacture; that collision is the entire film, and it's earned.