Huellas
2014 · 14m · España
Directed by Josemari Martínez
Genres: crime, drama, thriller
Suso, a serial killer, has a new trophy for his collection; Lucía, married to Luis, an invalid whom she loves but who cannot satisfy her, gets ready to go out; while all this happens the police desperately pursue the killer who has the community terrified.
Picked by Margot
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Three parallel storylines that *look* like they're building toward a conventional thriller—killer, trapped housewife, cops—except none of them actually converge the way you expect, and by the end you're not sure if you've watched a crime drama or something much stranger masquerading as one.
Huellas sits confidently in the lineage of European suspense cinema, using formal intercutting and tonal restraint to create a chamber piece of dread—the craft lies in *what doesn't happen*, in the sustained tension between three lives that orbit each other without collision.
The film's entire architecture hinges on a single formal choice: the decision to hold equally on the killer, the wife, and the investigation without privileging any one narrative, which transforms what could've been genre pulp into something genuinely unsettling about proximity and consequence.