Annie
2020 · 13m · España
Directed by Miki Durán
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
Annie wakes in an abandoned quarry, chained by a metal chain to a pole, with no idea how she got there. As the hours pass, her hopes of escape fade.
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A woman chained in a quarry waiting to die sounds like every other torture-chamber bit—until you realize the real horror is just her consciousness deteriorating in silence, which is either profound or self-indulgent, and I genuinely don't know which yet.
Durán's restraint here echoes the isolation-chamber tradition of Beckett and early Haneke, though the film's commitment to formal austerity sometimes overcomes its narrative momentum.
The decision to keep the camera static and let Annie's physical degradation—not dialogue, not score—carry the entire emotional weight is what makes 13 minutes feel genuinely unbearable.