Dagas y rosas. Sombras de fuego

2021 · 8m · Argentina

Directed by Juan Manuel Fagetti

Genres: action, fantasy, sci-fi

Tones: dark, mythic, theatrical

Intertwined stories of heroes: Ángel Nocturno against the League of Assassins, Ameba giving order to chaos, Estrella de Fuego making us know a galactic empire.

Picked by Felix

The scouts

Fagetti's refusal to pick a lane—stacking three disparate mythologies (street vigilante, chaos-ordering entity, space opera) into 8 minutes of pure theatrical fever—is exactly the kind of structural anarchy that makes lesser scouts squirm and makes this worth watching twice.

Felix

The film's tableaux-heavy composition and mythic staging situate it firmly in a lineage of Latin American magical realism and genre pastiche, though the breathless accumulation of narrative threads strains the formal control one might expect from a more meditative hand.

Margot

What clinches this is Fagetti's decision to treat all three worlds with identical visual weight and sonic intensity—no hierarchy, no explanation—which transforms what could've been three unrelated sketches into a singular statement about parallel heroisms through sheer committed tone.

Zoe