ALGO SERIO
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by PATXI GABELLA
Tones: contemplative, sensual
Manu and Ana meet by chance in a bar and begin a game of seduction that leads to a passionate night; the next day their paths cross again, revealing the true intentions and feelings behind their encounter.
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A meet-cute that flips into regret—fine, but the premise feels like it's been waiting in a screenplay workshop for five years, and the sensuality-then-sting structure doesn't quite earn its own twist.
Gabella's formal restraint in the morning-after reveals a lineage from the French New Wave's elliptical romance films, and the editing silence between attraction and consequence carries considerable weight.
That single choice to let the second meeting land without explanation—no voiceover, no obvious dialogue beats—transforms what could've been melodrama into something genuinely unsettling; the quiet does all the work.