EL BUEN COMER
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Anaís Ramos, Pablo Porcuna
Genres: documentary
Tones: contemplative
A documentary look at where the products we eat come from and what rural life and Spain's primary sector are really like, and at how responsible consumption can avoid waste and mass production.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A well-intentioned doc about sustainable eating and rural Spain—exactly the kind of earnest, consensus-friendly premise that makes me want to check my phone. If there's a subversive angle buried in here, it's not worth the 3 minutes to find it.
Ramos and Porcuna situate themselves squarely in the lineage of observational documentary, and the restraint with which they let rural labor and land-sourcing speak for itself suggests filmmakers conscious of their place in a tradition of witness-cinema—the kind of measured approach that rewards close attention.
The contemplative pacing is competent, but I'd need to see the specific editorial or sonic choice that makes 3 minutes of agricultural documentation feel inevitable rather than dutiful—what's the one decision here that couldn't have been made by someone else?