Canes, Canum, Canibus
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Álex Adeva
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative
An everyday encounter between three lifelong friends in a park reveals a problem as common in the past as in the present.
Picked by Margot
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Three friends in a park sounds like the setup to a therapy podcast, but if Adeva's actually doing something weird with form or expectation here—subverting the 'timeless problem' framing itself—then maybe it's worth the eyeroll.
A deceptively simple mise-en-scène that trusts the weight of longstanding friendship to carry philosophical inquiry; this is precisely the kind of formally restrained work that reveals itself through repeated viewing and rigorous editing choices.
The constraint here feels deliberate—three people, one park, cyclical problem—and there's probably one moment of gesture or silence or framing that makes the entire piece click into focus and justify its structural economy.