Chico sensible
2018 · 4m · España
Directed by Anna Karinvinge
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Six friends in post-Olympic Barcelona — Miki, Ari, Irene, Mila, Daniel and Manel — share their sensitive perspective on existence.
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Six friends philosophizing about sensitivity in post-Olympic Barcelona sounds like the most aggressively tasteful bore imaginable—except Karinvinge somehow makes introspection feel genuinely strange, like she's found a tone nobody else bothered to look for.
A assured, tender ensemble piece that understands the European coming-of-age tradition while refusing its melodrama; the film's restraint and attention to the weight of ordinary conversation place it in careful dialogue with the literary cinema lineage.
What makes this work is Karinvinge's decision to let six separate perspectives breathe without hierarchy or neat resolution—the formal choice to honor each voice equally, in just four minutes, is what transforms a simple premise into something that feels essential.