Gracias y adiós
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Adria Puig Facundo
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
How would you say goodbye to the people you love if you had to? Since the chance may never come, perhaps it is not unreasonable to record it.
Picked by Margot
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The premise arrives dressed in solemnity—a video-letter to loved ones—but I'm waiting for the subversion that never quite materializes; it's contemplative without being weird enough to justify its own existence.
Puig Facundo locates the film in a clear lineage of essayistic intimacy and pre-recorded farewell gestures, executing the conceit with formal precision and restraint that lets the melancholy accumulate through structure rather than sentiment.
Three minutes to say goodbye feels like it could collapse into maudlin, but the decision to keep the frame tight and still—letting the voice carry the weight—is what prevents this from becoming therapy and makes it genuinely move.