De menos
2021 · 9m · España
Directed by Cristina Martín, María José Martín
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, provocative, tense
Over dinner with friends, Marta, newly promoted to a post of great responsibility, senses something wrong with her partner Andrés, and as the evening unfolds an uncomfortable truth about how a couple reacts when the woman grows professionally comes to light.
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Everyone expects the woman's ambition to be celebrated; De menos flips that into something genuinely unsettling—a dinner party where professional success becomes the catalyst for a partner's resentment, which is refreshingly uncomfortable and refuses the easy moral.
The film's formal restraint—trapping us at that dinner table, letting discomfort accumulate through glances and silences rather than confrontation—positions it squarely in a lineage of chamber dramas that understand how power shifts in intimate spaces, and the editing honors that economy with precision.
What arrests this is the single choice to keep Andrés's face mostly turned away during the revelation, letting his jealousy breathe through posture and breathing rather than reaction shots—a small formal decision that makes the whole dynamic pivot from drama to something genuinely destabilizing.