Los días que pasan
2020 · 3m
Directed by Antonio Savinelli
Genres: documentary, essay film, family
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Four-year-old Leo and his little sister Olivia repeat the same routines each day as their family lives through coronavirus lockdown.
Picked by Zoe
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Everyone's making lockdown films right now, and most of them are either maudlin or self-conscious—this one just... watches kids be kids, which somehow feels like the most radical thing possible when the world is screaming.
Savinelli locates himself in the essay-film tradition of quotidian observation, where the formal restraint—three minutes, domestic space, repetition as structure—becomes the argument itself about time and endurance.
The genius move is treating the children's cyclical days not as tragedy but as texture: the camera stays low, patient, letting the sameness itself become the film's emotional weight rather than reaching for manufactured drama.