Como caído del cielo
2013 · 10m · España
Directed by Luis Sánchez-Polack
Tones: contemplative, dark
Four friends become entangled in a crime, or perhaps four, and discover that life can change in a single instant when events are allowed to affect them.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The premise tries to do something clever with narrative ambiguity—'a crime, or perhaps four'—but it lands closer to Sundance-approved contemplation than genuine subversion; it's the kind of film that thinks it's weirder than it actually is.
Sánchez-Polack constructs a rigorously controlled meditation on causality and moral contingency, where the editing discipline and tonal restraint quietly position this within a lineage of European existential drama—the kind of formal intelligence that rewards a second viewing.
The real work happens in the sound design and negative space between the four characters—there's a specific choice to let silence do more than dialogue, and that restraint is what transforms what could've been a generic crime tangle into something that actually breathes.