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2016 · 5m · España
Directed by Adriana Quizhpi, Alejandro Garcós, Gustavo Vejarano, Julián Lobo-Guerrero, Mayra Pomaquero
Genres: drama, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
Two unhappy lovers, Fausto and Elisa, are trapped in a mysterious space. Their routine is altered by an accident that guides them on the path towards a new world.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Five directors steering one dreamscape about stalled love—it's formally restless in a way that should feel like chaos, but instead it lands as genuinely unsettling, which means it's probably too controlled for my taste and everyone else will crown it.
A five-minute accumulation of formal decisions—the collaborative authorship, the deliberate pacing, the surrealist grammar deployed to examine intimacy—positions this work in direct conversation with experimental cinema's treatment of domestic rupture, executed with notable restraint.
The tonal shift when the accident breaks their routine is the whole film: that single moment where the surrealism stops being aesthetic garnish and becomes the *shape* of their emotional change—everything before and after hangs on that one pivot.