Alicia
2018 · 14m · España
Directed by Enrique Muñoz
Genres: coming-of-age, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
Drawn by dreams, death and the lure of the forbidden, Marcos takes a definitive step toward maturity in a world between dream and reality where nothing is what it seems.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A coming-of-age fever dream that refuses the expected beats—Muñoz tosses the linear narrative in favor of something genuinely disorienting, and it shouldn't work, but the refusal to explain itself is the whole point.
Muñoz situates himself deliberately within the Latin American surrealist lineage—think early Guillermo del Toro—and the precision of his editing between dream and waking states demonstrates formal control that rewards close attention and repeat viewing.
The entire film pivots on a single decision to blur the threshold between Marcos's interior life and external reality through the sound design, which carries the emotional weight that most coming-of-age films waste on exposition.