La noche
2017 · 12m · España
Directed by Martín Romero
Genres: drama, fantasy, romance
Tones: mythic, sensual, tender
A werewolf and a moon woman meet at a great lake during a warm summer night. Passion arises between them and they immediately begin an idyllic love relationship; however, an unexpected event will change their lives.
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A werewolf-moon woman romance sounds like it should be insufferable fantasy-lite, but Romero treats the mythic premise with such unironic tenderness that it almost becomes subversive—the real move is refusing to wink at the audience.
La noche situates itself deliberately within a lineage of poetic cinema and classical myth-cinema, using the lake as both liminal space and formal stage; the sensual restraint and editing rhythm suggest a filmmaker thinking seriously about how bodies and light have been composed in this tradition.
The decision to keep the supernatural elements deliberately vague—to let the werewolf and moon woman remain half-glimpsed, texturally suggested rather than revealed—is what transforms a thin premise into something genuinely mysterious and affecting on a minimal budget.