El evangelio de la servilleta
2025 · 20m · España
Directed by Óscar Parra de Carrizosa
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
A napkin, a shared wine, an uncomfortable silence: around a table on Christmas Eve, a group of strangers live through confession, the wound, memory and hope, in a story about faith and doubt sitting together.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A napkin as scripture, strangers as confessors—it's a setup that could tip into precious symbolism real fast, but Parra de Carrizosa seems genuinely interested in the awkward theology of that Christmas table, not the Instagram version of it.
This sits in a careful lineage of chamber dramas that treat conversation as sacrament—Rohmer, early Koreeda—and the formal restraint (twenty minutes, one table, wine and napkin as the only props) suggests a director who understands that intimacy demands formal precision, not informality.
The real move here is the silence itself: Parra de Carrizosa trusts pauses and the micro-expressions around shared wine to carry confession, which means the entire film hinges on casting actors who can sit with discomfort without performing it.