Después
2019 · 7m · Argentina
Directed by Vitto Manccini
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
The unexpected loss of a loved one brings a little girl's questions to her grandfather, who must explain, from the wisdom of everyday life, what comes after.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's competent and heartfelt, sure—but it's also exactly the film you expect it to be, which is precisely why I'm not the one reaching for it.
Manccini locates something classical in the grandfather-granddaughter dialogue, a structure so deceptively simple it risks sentimentality, yet the restraint in the editing and the durational patience of the piece suggests real formal intelligence about how grief unfolds in small conversations.
The film hinges entirely on the grandfather's silences—those pauses where he's searching for language—and it's in those held moments that the performance becomes the architecture, turning what could've been maudlin into something genuinely earned.