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2021 · 4m · España
Directed by Cecilia Gessa
Genres: drama, experimental, LGBTQ+
Tones: contemplative, sensual, tender
A trilogy of short pieces about sonority, consensual sex and bisexuality after the age of fifty.
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Gessa's refusal to perform titillation while centering queer pleasure and aging bodies is genuinely radical—but it's the *formal* radicalism (the sonoric architecture, the compression of three worlds into four minutes) that makes this subversive rather than just earnest.
A trilogy compressed into a single breath, each piece a formal study in restraint and rhythm; Gessa positions this work in a lineage of experimental cinema that privileges sensation and duration over narrative, with craft decisions that reward close attention and repeat viewing.
The entire film hinges on Gessa's choice to let sound carry what image refuses to show—that decision to build intimacy through listening rather than looking is what transforms a four-minute piece into something that feels generative and new.