La Condena

2015 · 8m · España

Directed by Marc Nadal

Genres: documentary, drama

Tones: contemplative, melancholic

Based on real events, an elderly couple of sixty-five are pushed into eviction in a Spain where 189 evictions a day were carried out in 2014.

Picked by Margot

The scouts

Everyone expects the eviction film to be a howl of rage, but Nadal just… watches, lets the silence do the work—which is somehow more brutal, more weird, and way more interesting than the soapbox version.

Felix

A formally rigorous documentary-drama hybrid that inherits the Spanish neorealist tradition while interrogating it; the restraint in observation and the refusal of sentimentality mark this as work aware of its own lineage and responsibilities.

Margot

The decision to hold on the couple's faces during the actual moment of displacement—no music, no editorial cushion, just duration—transforms what could've been advocacy into something that actually breaks you.

Zoe