Después del diluvio
2020 · 17m
Directed by Daniel León Lacave
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
After a catastrophe, a woman returns home and meets a man who claims to know her though she does not remember him; over the hours, memories of a former life mix with recent anguish.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Post-apocalyptic amnesia is basically the consensus move—what saves this from the scrap heap is how little Lacave bothers to resolve the mystery, letting ambiguity calcify into something genuinely uncomfortable rather than narratively tidy.
Lacave positions this within a lineage of European memory-cinema—Haneke's formal restraint, Tarkovsky's durational ache—and the 17 minutes feel architecturally considered, each scene a deliberate withholding that respects the viewer's intelligence and the gravity of fractured identity.
The film hinges on a single recurring gesture—the man's insistence against her denial—and Lacave trusts it completely, refusing to cut away or underline, which transforms what could be maudlin into something searingly alive.