El mes en el que fuimos egoístas
2019 · 7m · España
Directed by Jose Eos
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, LGBTQ+
Tones: contemplative, tender
Two young people disappointed with their lives meet and decide to spend a month locked in a room, isolated from everyone and everything, in an experience that will mark them forever.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Everyone expects isolation narratives to crack open into crisis or revelation—Eos just lets two people sit in their own smallness for a month and calls it love, which is genuinely perverse in the best way.
A formally restrained chamber piece that echoes the tradition of constraint-as-clarity, though it risks dissolving into affect where a sharper compositional hand might have crystallized something harder.
The film's entire architecture hangs on a single choice—treating the room not as a prison but as permission—and that reframing, executed through careful sound design and the actors' refusal to perform breakthrough, transforms a high-concept premise into something heartbreakingly intimate on almost no budget.