La belleza duerme
2018 · 8m · España
Directed by Luis Pisonero Tarantino
Genres: drama, fantasy, horror
Tones: dark, melancholic, mythic
Paula discovers that the man she has constantly rejected has cursed her house: time has stopped, her father stands frozen, and only accepting his marriage proposal can end it — but she desperately searches for an escape as the curse destroys her.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone expects the curse-breaks-with-true-love beat; Pisonero instead traps Paula in a horror poem about coercion dressed as fate, which is genuinely unsettling in ways the premise doesn't telegraph.
A formally rigorous reckoning with the Sleeping Beauty curse myth—Pisonero uses frozen time as both visual constraint and thematic mirror, collapsing fairy tale inevitability into a woman's desperate resistance, situated squarely in the lineage of revisionist dark fantasy.
The decisive move is the editing's refusal to cut away: holding on Paula's face as time crystallizes around her creates a suffocating intimacy that transforms what could be stock horror into something tactile and claustrophobic on a shoestring.