La realidad, realidad es
2018 · 4m · España
Directed by Daniel Sanchidrián
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Blanca, a young woman passionate about life, makes summer plans with friends Alvaro and Cristina. Reality proves different from appearances, and Blanca knows the fact well.
Picked by Zoe
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The premise reads like every other summer-plans-go-wrong coming-of-age sketch, and I suspect Sanchidrián knows it—but I'd need to see what he actually does with that tired setup to know if he's deconstructing it or just inhabiting it.
A formally composed meditation on the gap between expectation and lived experience; the melancholic tone suggests a filmmaker conscious of the European arthouse tradition of ennui and disillusionment, though the execution will determine whether it earns that lineage.
Four minutes is punishing for a coming-of-age story, so everything rides on whether Sanchidrián finds the single moment—a glance, a withheld conversation, a cut—that crystallizes what Blanca actually understands about reality that her friends don't.