La última llamada
2020 · 13m
Directed by Pamela Quispe
Tones: melancholic, surreal, tender
During lockdown, Clara posts the story of her older brother, who died of COVID-19, to warn others, until she wakes to find him alive and realizes it was a dream.
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The dream-within-grief premise is solid enough, but it lands exactly where you'd expect—the twist of him being alive is the film's only card, and once it's played, there's no subversion left to chase.
Quispe demonstrates formal control in the way the dream logic is suspended, and there's something genuinely moving in how the film situates itself within a pandemic-era lineage of intimate, loss-centered cinema—though the structure is fairly conventional.
The power lives in a single sound design choice: that moment when Clara wakes and the audio world shifts, the digital murmur of social media falling away to silence—that's what makes the grief suddenly *real*, and it's why this works at all on a minimal budget.