Bunbury: Expectativas
2017 · 12m · España
Directed by Jose Girl
Genres: documentary, musical
Tones: contemplative
The film documents the creation process behind Enrique Bunbury's musical work Expectativas. It follows the making of that album.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A music doc about an album's genesis sounds like the most consensus-safe pick imaginable, but Bunbury's conceptual rigor and the film's refusal to sentimentalize the creative process actually sidesteps the hagiography trap—it's austere where you'd expect reverence.
The documentary situates itself thoughtfully within the lineage of artist-process films, using restraint and temporal clarity to honor both the music and the craft of documentation itself; it's the kind of formally measured portrait that rewards close attention to editorial decision-making.
The film's power lives in how it chooses to frame silence and labor—those moments where nothing dramatic happens but everything about Bunbury's methodology becomes legible through the spacing and sound design alone.