¿Cómo estás?
2024 · 5m · España
Directed by Carlos Mera
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
During an ordinary dinner, one friend asks another the simple question 'How are you?', opening a conversation far more complex than the evening suggested.
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It's a conversation drama—literally just two people talking over dinner—which should be agony, but Mera resists the urge to manufacture conflict or cuteness, letting the awkwardness breathe in a way that actually subverts the greeting-card premise.
A formally elegant distillation of the intimacy-and-distance problem in contemporary friendship, where Mera's restraint and precise pacing recall the best of the New Narrative cinema—the kind of small, observational work that reveals its sophistication only on second viewing.
The entire film hangs on the micro-decision to let silences genuinely exist between the responses, not scored over or cut away from, which transforms a nothing-premise into something that feels urgent and real.