Indomable
2021 · 10m · Argentina
Directed by Sebastián Silva
Tones: tense, theatrical
Lara is a theatre and film actress who attends the casting of the film 'Indomable' to play the leading role of a mafia woman; another person without an acting career, called Lucas, also wants the lead, which will cause both to face each other in an acting demonstration.
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Silva does the obvious move—meta casting comedy—but refuses to punch down at either actor, which is genuinely weird and keeps it from being the smug festival circuit snore it could've been.
A cleanly constructed chamber piece that understands its debt to both Pirandello and the Nouvelle Vague tradition of interrogating performance itself; the theatrical tension is formally disciplined.
The reveal that Lucas is playing it completely straight while Lara leans into artifice—that single tonal asymmetry between the two actors—is the hinge that transforms a premise into something that actually breathes.