Las suertes
2012 · 4m · España
Directed by Alejandro Marcos
Genres: drama, experimental, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
A strange man wanders the metro reciting names and dates of birth and death, as fate marks when each life will find its entrance and its exit.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A dude literally narrating birth-death timestamps on the metro should be unbearable—instead it becomes this hypnotic memento mori that makes you reconsider what experimental film actually does. Everyone else would call it too abstract; Felix knows it's exactly as weird and consequential as cinema needs to be.
Marcos positions this squarely in the lineage of Angelopoulos and Tarkovsky—the solitary figure as conduit for philosophical inquiry—but the metro setting and real-time recitation feel curiously contemporary, a formal gesture that acknowledges both tradition and its necessary rupture.
The decision to let the voice remain flat and unadorned, never reaching for emotional manipulation, is what transforms a conceptual premise into something unbearably human; that restraint does all the heavy lifting on a four-minute budget.