Entre luces de mi inocencia
2023 · 12m · España
Directed by Laura Zamora
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, family
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Every weekend, Laura visits her cousin and grandparents. Laura spends the happiest moments of her childhood while trying to draw gradually closer to her grandfather José, of whom she has always heard that he is difficult to deal with because of his rough heart.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a coming-of-age film about family reconciliation—basically the premise everyone and their cousin has made since Boyhood—and Zamora doesn't seem interested in rupturing that expectation, which means I'm not interested either.
A formally composed portrait of intergenerational tenderness that understands the grammar of intimate family cinema; the restraint in how Zamora lets silences and small gestures carry emotional weight suggests a filmmaker thinking seriously about economy and what doesn't need to be said.
The film's entire emotional fulcrum turns on a single recurring gesture—the grandfather's resistance softening through tiny acts of presence—and Zamora's decision to let that accumulate wordlessly rather than force a reconciliation arc is what transforms a familiar setup into something that actually breathes.