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2017 · 20m · España
Directed by Carlos Bigorra
Tones: contemplative, tender
Marta and Pablo have arranged to have dinner. Over the course of the evening they share, all the ins and outs of their relationship will come to light, and we will see that everyone, in one way or another, deserves a second chance.
Picked by Margot
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A dinner conversation about second chances and relationship archaeology—premise sounds like a Hallmark card, and honestly, it probably is one. Pass.
Bigorra's restraint in a two-hander conversation piece becomes its own formal argument: the film trusts dialogue and duration the way mid-century realist cinema did, letting revelation accumulate through pacing and what's *not* said, which is how you make 20 minutes of emotional reckoning feel inevitable.
The decision to keep the camera largely still during the dinner—to let the performance and the silences do the work rather than cut away or move into anxiety—is what sells the tenderness; it's a constraint that becomes the whole film's grammar.