¿Qué pasa con Jessy?
2025 · 9m · España
Directed by Sergio Martínez
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Jessy is a teenager who one day decides to skip class. This will become a habit that she must change with the help of the people close to her in order to save her future.
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A teenager skips class and learns a lesson—it's the kind of premise that makes you want to scream into the void, and I'm genuinely curious what Martínez does to justify spending nine minutes here instead of anywhere else.
The tender, contemplative tone suggests a film aware of its lineage in the Spanish coming-of-age tradition, though the execution would need to demonstrate formal precision and restraint to distinguish it from the well-worn genre beats.
What matters here is likely a single moment—a glance, a conversation with someone close to her, a cut that shifts the emotional register—where Martínez makes you believe Jessy's crisis is real, not just dutiful narrative machinery.