Dinosaurios
2015 · 4m · España
Directed by Daniel Allué
Genres: drama, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: melancholic, surreal, tender
Once a week, Miguel accompanies a grandfather to a doctor's appointment as health declines and only apparent delusions keep the old man happy. On the way home, a detour enters a surreal world where the grandfather claims to see dinosaurs.
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It's a touching meditation on grief disguised as magical realism, which sounds like exactly the kind of festival-circuit consensus play Felix would dismiss—except Allué refuses to earn the surrealism, letting the dinosaurs stay ambiguous and unsentimental, and that refusal to perform meaning is genuinely disarming.
Allué's restraint in the formal grammar—the way the film refuses to confirm whether grandfather is delusional or visionary, holding that tension through editing and framing alone—places this squarely in the tradition of Pialat and Akerman, where emotional precision lives in what remains unresolved.
The entire film hinges on one choice: the decision to shoot the dinosaur sequences with the same flat, quotidian light as the medical appointments, treating delusion and reality as photographically indistinguishable, and that single formal commitment transforms four minutes into something that feels earned rather than whimsical.