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2018 · 8m · España
Directed by Samuel Miró
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
On their first date, after a romantic dinner, Sonia invites Diego up to her flat and they begin to have sex — until she tells him to stop and he ignores her repeated pleas.
Picked by Margot
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Everyone expects this to be provocation-for-provocation's sake, but Miró actually resists the sensationalism — the real subversion is in *how* restrained it is, which somehow makes it more unbearable.
A formally rigorous examination of consent and violation that knows exactly which cinematic traditions it's interrogating; the editing and framing do the moral work without ever winking at the audience.
The single choice that anchors this — the decision to shoot the aftermath in almost documentary stillness rather than catharsis — is what separates this from exploitation and makes it brutally real.