La LLamada
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by José Luis García García
Genres: drama, mystery, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
In the middle of the night, a telephone breaks the silence; a hand lifts the receiver and, at the other end, a human voice whispers a name — in her eyes, the weight of what she knows and the fear of what is returning.
Picked by Margot
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Three minutes of a hand answering a phone in the dark—it's *almost* too restrained, too much like a Bergman fragment everyone pretends to understand, but García actually commits to the bit and lets the silence do the strangling; that's rarer than you'd think.
A masterclass in economy: the telephone as both formal device and emotional vessel, positioned in a lineage of Cocteau and early Polanski, where sound design and the actor's eyes carry the entire narrative architecture—this is curation at its most disciplined.
The decision to hold on her face through the reveal rather than cut to the caller—that single structural choice transforms what could've been a jump-scare into something genuinely unnerving, and it's the kind of restraint that signals a director who knows exactly what they're withholding.