Rememo
2009 · 17m · España
Directed by Jon Rivero
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Paula and Cristina have been friends since childhood; they have shared memories, traumas, experiences — everything a life represents. Paula decides to change the course of her life, but at that moment Cristina arrives at her house to talk about the past and to remember certain events from which one cannot escape.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's a perfectly competent memory-play, but there's nothing here that bends the form—two people talking about the past is exactly what it sounds like, and Rivero doesn't seem interested in upending that contract.
A disciplined chamber piece that understands its debt to Pinter and Ayckbourn; the film's formal restraint—how it lets silence do the work of emotional rupture—places it squarely in a lineage of European intimist drama that demands close, repeated viewing.
The power lives in Rivero's decision to keep the camera nearly static while the women circle each other verbally—that stillness against the emotional turbulence is what makes seventeen minutes feel like an excavation rather than just conversation.