Limoncello
2007 · 21m · España
Directed by Borja Cobeaga, Jorge Dorado, Luiso Berdejo
Genres: drama, experimental, western
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
In the American West, three stories: a preacher who struggles to sleep, a girl and a simpleton in search of a map, and a sheriff who does not wash — dust, dry blood, horses, pistols and sweat: three westerns.
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The scouts
Three directors weaponizing the western format to interrogate faithlessness, stupidity, and feral isolation—refusing redemption or coherence across the triptych. Most scouts want the genre to make sense; Limoncello treats it like a fever dream where dust and blood are the only honest currencies.
A formally restless meditation on the western's exhaustion, where Cobeaga, Dorado, and Berdejo situate themselves against the tradition itself—the triptych structure and painterly restraint recall Kiarostami's essay-films more than Hawks or Ford.
The decision to let the three narratives exist as autonomous visual and tonal islands—no connective tissue, no explanation—means the film's weight lands entirely on performance restraint and the sound design of abandonment: every non-action becomes the action.