Muy cerca
2012 · 17m · España
Directed by Iván Caso
Genres: drama, mystery, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
Julia follows enigmatic signs left by her partner Jaime to a beach meeting, then loses her way with the children in a nearby forest, in an odyssey that reveals her fragile bond with reality.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Premise-wise, this is doing the obvious thing — woman follows breadcrumbs, reality fractures, forest eats meaning — and it doesn't subvert the formula enough to justify the setup; the surrealism feels more inherited than interrogated.
Caso constructs a formal descent that dialogues with structural cinema and psychological realism—the children as both anchors and destabilizers, the beach-to-forest geography as a Dantean movement through interiority; the measured pacing earns its ambiguity.
The decision to keep the children's presence constant while the landscape and Julia's certainty dissolve around them creates a disorienting double-truth that one clear editing choice—cutting *to* their confusion rather than *away* from it—makes indelible.