Ni una chuche más
2024 · 5m · España
Directed by Irene Torres
Tones: contemplative, whimsical
Rubén and Fernando, lifelong friends, are chatting in a car. Rubén proposes playing a game — following a car: who will the person be, and what will their life be like?
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Two guys riffing in a car about imaginary strangers—it's funny, sure, but it's also playing it pretty safe for a premise that could've gone genuinely weird; Torres lands the tone, but doesn't quite push the subversion far enough to make me lean forward.
The film understands the lineage of conversational cinema and sits comfortably within it, trading narrative momentum for observational grace—a measured, formally sound study in how intimacy lives in speculation rather than plot.
The entire film hinges on a single sonic and editorial choice: the way Torres cuts between their voices and the ambient car-sound, letting silence breathe where exposition would go, which transforms what could've been saccharine into something genuinely tender.