El Camino del Uróboro
2013 · 20m · España
Directed by David Mejuto
Genres: crime, drama, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
Andoni, a father driven to despair after his daughter dies following the collapse of public healthcare, joins the anarchist group Lucha Justa to avenge her death by killing corrupt politicians and bankers.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A grief-fueled revenge thriller that weaponizes healthcare collapse into anarchist agitprop—most scouts would run from the political friction, which is exactly why Mejuto's willingness to let ideology and intimacy collide without resolution makes this bracingly uncomfortable.
Mejuto positions this within the Spanish tradition of politically-conscious genre cinema, though the film's tonal oscillation between intimate family tragedy and ideological manifesto risks fragmenting what could have been a more formally austere meditation on rage and complicity.
The decision to shoot the private moments of grief in handheld naturalism, then harden into rigid framing once Andoni enters the cell, transforms what could have been a standard revenge narrative into something that uses camera language to track the death of his interiority.