AMBICION
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by IVO ERASMO
Genres: crime, dark comedy, drama
Tones: dark, darkly comic, tense
In an all-too-familiar episode of corrupt Spain, Nacho, an unscrupulous businessman whose luck has run out, pins his future on a single meeting — but things are about to go wrong.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Three minutes of a guy's day imploding in corrupt Spain should be rote — instead Erasmo treats the setup like a trap closing, which is exactly the kind of structural sass most scouts would miss.
A compact crime-comedy that knows its forebears (Erice, perhaps Saura's sharper moments) but settles into a tonal register that feels more procedural than formally adventurous — competent genre work, nothing that reshapes the conversation.
The genius here is pure economy: watch how Erasmo uses a single location and Nacho's deteriorating composure across three minutes to do what most scripts need twenty to establish — it's the kind of constraint-into-clarity that marks emerging directorial instinct.