La otra
2018 · 20m · Argentina
Directed by Cintya Fondato
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
The young Marcia returns to her old city Pergamino, since there is a secret from her childhood that attracts her; what will she find?
Picked by Zoe
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A secret-from-childhood mystery that plays it so straight and atmospheric it almost bores you into submission—except Fondato's refusal to dramatize the return, to let Marcia just *be* there remembering, is a quietly radical rejection of the thriller machinery we're waiting for.
Fondato demonstrates formal restraint in the contemplative tradition of Latin American intimate cinema, where landscape and memory become compositional elements; the melancholic pacing recalls a lineage of films that trust silence over exposition.
The choice to shoot Pergamino itself as a character—letting the city's geometry and light do the emotional work rather than leaning on Marcia's performance or backstory reveals—is the kind of production decision that makes a modest 20 minutes feel inevitable.