AMOR PROPIO
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Agustín Carreño
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, surreal
In a pharmacy of the not-too-distant future, a woman looks for relief in a pill called Self-Love.
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A pharmacy as confessional booth, Self-Love as prescription—it's the kind of premise that sounds like a TED talk until you actually watch it slap. Carreño takes the most obvious satirical target (late capitalism's commodification of mental health) and somehow makes it feel *dangerous* rather than preachy.
The film's restraint is its formal achievement; it resists the urge to overexplain its speculative world, instead treating the pharmacy setting with the quiet inevitability of Chaykin or Koreeda—sci-fi as intimate chamber piece rather than spectacle.
That three-minute runtime does everything the concept needs because Carreño commits to one clear visual metaphor: a woman shopping for herself like she's selecting produce, and the edit keeps pace with her growing unease rather than rushing to the punchline.