Buenos días
2018 · 11m · España
Directed by Dany Campos
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Guido has a very hard day ahead, but while talking with Ángela, his daughter, he realises something: he must finally be a good father. After so much time, however, the attempt is not credible to her.
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A father-daughter reconciliation story is about as safe as cinema gets, but Campos commits to something genuinely unsettling: the daughter's refusal to believe him. Most films would soften that moment for catharsis; this one doesn't flinch.
The film locates itself squarely in the Latin American domestic drama tradition—economical, emotionally austere—and executes that lineage with unshowy precision; Campos understands that the most devastating family moments require almost no camera movement at all.
The entire film hinges on Ángela's face in that final exchange: the way disbelief doesn't soften into forgiveness, doesn't resolve into anything clean. That single performance choice—the refusal to perform absolution—is what makes the premise sting instead of settle.