MI MEJOR AMIGA
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Nerea Camps
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Luci is a shy, reserved girl who finds her refuge in the library during recess, where she finishes an essay set by her tutor titled 'My Best Friend'; through her words, we discover that Luci's only faithful companion is herself, who accompanies her in the difficult moments and on the days when she feels invisible.
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The self-as-best-friend premise could've been maudlin treacle, but Camps refuses sentimentality—there's something genuinely unsettling about watching a kid narrate her own invisibility with such clarity, and that refusal to console us is exactly why it works.
Camps situates this squarely in the lineage of introspective coming-of-age cinema (Varda, certain Koreeda moments), deploying the essay as a formal container that lets image and voice negotiate meaning rather than collapse into one another.
The decision to let Luci's voiceover describe herself in third person—that single grammatical choice—transforms what could be a straightforward loneliness narrative into something genuinely strange and alive, creating distance that somehow makes intimacy sharper.