Reunión
2018 · 18m · España
Directed by Raquel Pérez Crego
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
A man leaves the city for a job in a village and moves into a rented old house on the outskirts, where the landlady awaits him.
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A landlady-tenant drama sounds like the setup for a Lifetime thriller, but Pérez Crego refuses the obvious—there's no twist, no rupture, just a slow accumulation of distance that most films would panic and undercut by now.
Reunión understands the formal grammar of the European slow cinema tradition—the deliberate framing, the withholding of plot as an act of style—and executes it with the kind of measured restraint that separates composed cinema from mere inertia.
The film's entire emotional weight hinges on a single repeated gesture: the way the landlady observes him across thresholds, never quite entering the same space, and that geometric restraint—the camera's refusal to close the distance—becomes the whole architecture of loneliness.