Nadie se duerme con Guillermo del Toro
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Jorge Huertas Menor
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, romance
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
With Guillermo del Toro on the television, Marco falls asleep on Pepa's shoulder; she has loved him all her life and for an instant believes her dream has come true — until the perfect moment begins to wobble.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Everyone expects a quiet indie romance about unrequited love, so naturally this film bets everything on del Toro's presence as a kind of emotional stand-in—which should be precious but somehow *isn't*, and that refusal to be cute about it is exactly what makes it work.
The film positions itself within a lineage of Spanish-language intimacy cinema, where the threshold between waking and dreaming becomes a formal device for examining how we project onto each other; the wobble it ends on is neither sentimental nor cynical, which takes considerable restraint.
That moment when Pepa realizes the spell is breaking—not through dialogue or music shift, but through Marco's posture changing imperceptibly—is the whole film compressed into one physical choice, and it's the kind of decision that proves three minutes can hold more than most features.