¿Qué Diría Freud De Todo Esto?
2007 · 10m · España
Directed by Eduardo Vallejos
Genres: drama, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: dark, melancholic, surreal
Elisa, a young worker whom everyone is used to treating badly — from her boss to her boyfriend to her own mother — is encouraged by a psychologist to write a tale to channel her problems, until the line between reality and fantasy breaks in a deep, disturbing dream.
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The psychologist-as-narrative-catalyst could've been a tired cliché, but Vallejos uses it as a trap door—the film doesn't trust therapy, doesn't trust the dream logic it's selling you, and that refusal to resolve is genuinely unsettling in a way most surrealism fails to be.
A formally precise descent into psychological destabilization that speaks fluently to the lineage of magical realism in Latin American cinema; the careful modulation between Elisa's social degradation and her dreamscape rebellion shows real command of tonal architecture.
The decision to let the camera stay with Elisa's face during the shift from waking to dream—no fancy transitions, just a held gaze—does all the work: suddenly you're inside her dissociation rather than observing it, and that single formal choice transforms a therapy-session premise into something genuinely disorienting.