Regresión

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Past-life regression as existential crisis is exactly the kind of high-concept premise that usually collapses into new-age treacle, but Betancort seems genuinely interested in the vertigo of it—the rupture between self and memory—rather than cosmic reassurance.

Regresión sits in deliberate conversation with metaphysical cinema from Tarkovsky through contemporary European art film; the restraint in how it handles the surreal memories, the editing's refusal to exploit the premise, marks this as formally considered work that earns its melancholy.

The film's entire architecture hinges on a single tonal choice—treating the past-life visions with the same mundane weight as Javier's waking life rather than visual spectacle—and that decision transforms what could be genre fantasy into something genuinely unsettling on a micro-budget.