Año nuevo
2013 · 15m · España
Directed by A.R.
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Roberto Sanjuán, film director, and Sara Martín, writer, coincide in a radio programme on New Year's Eve; both have a story to tell.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two talking heads on a radio programme doesn't exactly scream subversion, and the New Year's Eve framing feels like it's been done to death—but I'd need to see if A.R. is doing something genuinely perverse with the constraint, or just polishing a well-worn premise.
The formal discipline here is palpable: two narrative voices converging in real time, the radio booth as a bounded stage, the New Year threshold as structural hinge—this is a film aware of its own architecture, where restraint becomes the medium itself.
The entire film hinges on whether these two performances—Sanjuán and Martín, director and writer, playing themselves—can sustain 15 minutes of confession with nothing but proximity and timing; if the chemistry lands, it's everything.