París 70
2023 · 15m · España
Directed by Dani Feixas
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Jan cares for his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's; every day she asks him about his father and every answer brings her deep sadness and confusion, leaving Jan torn between white lies that spare her suffering and a truth that wounds her daily.
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It's a competent grief story, sure, but París 70 doesn't have the nerve to actually *break* the caregiver narrative—it just sits in the tenderness of it, which is exactly what everyone expects from this material.
Feixas demonstrates a refined understanding of how cinema handles repetition and temporal collapse; the film's formal structure—each day a measured echo—places it squarely in the lineage of Haneke and Koreeda's patient examinations of care and memory.
The entire film turns on Feixas's decision to keep the camera on Jan's face during the moment he chooses his lie—not cutting away, not softening it with music—and that refusal to look away is what transforms a familiar premise into something that actually *lands*.