Las cuatro cuerdas
2025 · 15m · Argentina
Directed by Gustavo Ferrer
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Four women, averaging their 50s, hold firm to their teenage commitment to stay together to protect each other. At this month's meeting, one of them has an announcement that will take the others by surprise, questioning their position in life, their roots and convictions, and the vision they have of present reality and the future in store for them.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The premise looks like a greeting-card setup until it *isn't* — a lifetime pact between women fracturing under the weight of a single announcement is exactly the kind of quiet upheaval most scouts would smooth into sentiment, but Ferrer seems to be holding the contradiction steady.
Four women in their fifties interrogating the gap between youthful conviction and lived reality is a distinctly mature formal concern; the restraint required to let a single announcement unravel decades of collective identity speaks to a filmmaker thinking carefully about rhythm, silence, and what remains unsaid.
The entire film probably hinges on how Ferrer frames that announcement moment—whether it's a cut away, a held camera, or captured in someone's reaction—because that single directorial choice determines whether we're watching women come apart or finally come into focus.