Luna. Un cortometraje de Alejandro Amenábar
1995 · 14m · España
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative
A hitchhiker is picked up by a young woman on the road, in Alejandro Amenábar's remake of his own earlier video short.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A director remaking his own work sounds like the opposite of subversive—until you realize Amenábar's doing it anyway, which is either pointless or genuinely strange; I'm not sure which, and that ambivalence is more interesting than the film probably deserves.
Amenábar's decision to revisit and formally reconstruct his own earlier video work positions Luna as a deliberate dialogue with his own emerging practice—a rare act of artistic self-examination that locates itself within the lineage of directorial refinement.
The choice to remake rather than discard the original speaks to a specific filmmaking instinct: Amenábar saw something in the premise worth another pass, and that commitment to a second attempt—that particular act of revision—is where the real craft decision lives.