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2017 · 14m · España
Directed by Manuel Manrique
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
The whole family is reunited to watch the video that Jonás, the little one, recorded during Christmas at grandma's house; in the innocent domestic video, some unexpected images will break with the perfect family harmony.
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The premise *sounds* like maudlin family-video nostalgia, but Manrique weaponizes that format against itself—what emerges from the innocuous footage is genuinely disorienting, a formal trap that catches both the family and us off guard.
A formally elegant deconstruction of the home-video essay tradition, where the gap between what we expect to see and what the footage reveals becomes the entire architecture of the piece.
The decision to let the video itself be the unreliable narrator—letting accumulated domestic detail do the psychological work rather than editorializing around it—transforms a simple premise into something that lands with real weight on a shoestring.