EN LAS NUBES
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by ALFONSO SOSA ZAMORA
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
In the silence of a funeral parlour, a man recalls how his father used to tell him he always had his head in the clouds, leaving the man and woman listening to him perplexed.
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The premise dangles a meta-joke about absent fathers and empty metaphors, but the film seems genuinely unaware of how thin that setup is—which almost makes it interesting, if only it committed to the absurdity instead of settling for melancholy.
Sosa Zamora locates something formally precise in the gap between memory and eulogistic speech: the funeral parlour becomes a space where language itself fails, and the film's restraint—its refusal to sentimentalize the father or resolve the perplexity—aligns with a lineage of contemplative portraiture that trusts the viewer to sit with incompleteness.
The film hangs entirely on the sound design of silence and the actor's pause before recounting the father's words—that single beat where we understand the son is translating something untranslatable—and it's enough to make three minutes feel like a complete act of witnessing.