Lasaña
2017 · 1m · España
Directed by Miguel Á. Morales
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
After losing a grandfather, the protagonist also loses a favourite dog. By chance, the protagonist and a girlfriend find a bottle of the wine that the grandfather liked most.
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The grief-and-wine setup reads like Hallmark channeled through a grief counselor's pamphlet—competent, sure, but exactly the kind of tasteful melancholia that gets mistaken for depth because nobody wants to argue with sadness.
Morales demonstrates formal control in compressing dual loss into a single, clarifying gesture; the structure mirrors the memento-work of cinema itself, though the emotional architecture stays within well-trodden elegiac territory.
That 60-second collapse from two griefs into one small ritual lives or dies on the casting and the exact moment the bottle is recognized—if Morales nailed that recognition beat, the entire film's economy clicks into place with almost no budget required.