ANYWHERE
2020 · 16m · España
Directed by Agustín Claros
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative
On a hot day, a man drives until he reaches a crossroads. He must choose which road to take.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A man drives to a crossroads and has to choose—sounds like a Borges footnote, except Claros plays it completely straight, which is almost brave enough to be interesting, but lands somewhere between Kiarostami pastiche and content.
Claros's restraint in the mise-en-scène—the heat as compositional strategy, the crossroads as deliberate formal threshold rather than metaphor—situates this in a lineage of philosophical landscape cinema where the frame itself becomes the argument.
The decision to hold on the road itself rather than the character's face during the moment of choosing; that single reframing transforms what could've been internal psychology into pure environmental cinema, and it's the film's whole thesis.