No sé qué hacer contigo
2012 · 15m · España
Directed by Miguel Campion
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, melancholic
A woman is preparing to go to work, like any morning, when the police knock on her door and tell her that her father has died; she stays cold, does not react, since she has not heard from him for many years, since he abandoned the whole family, but she still decides to take charge of the arrangements related to her father's death, and only when she sees herself carrying the urn of ashes does she realize the mess she has got into.
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The scouts
Everyone expects the grief-stricken daughter beat, but Campion flatly refuses it—she stays cold, stays functional, and the film's refusal to sentimentalize abandonment is genuinely disorienting in the best way.
A precisely calibrated chamber piece that understands the European lineage of domestic emotional realism; the formal restraint in performance and blocking echoes Haneke without aping him, and the tonal shift when she holds the urn lands with architectural precision.
That moment she realizes the mess—it's not a line, it's a physical understanding that floods her face without fanfare, and everything about how Campion cuts to that recognition instead of stating it turns a small-scale family drama into something that actually breathes.