Sí, quiero
2019 · 7m · Uruguay
Directed by Tomas Marichal Urban
Tones: melancholic, tender
In this romantic drama, a girl fights to reach the arms of her beloved while he hovers between life and death.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise reads like every romantic drama ever made—girl reaches for dying boy, melancholy ensues—but I'd need to see what formal or tonal trap Marichal Urban has actually set to know if this is subversion or surrender.
A seven-minute romantic elegy positioned squarely in the lineage of tender, formally composed European shorts; if the execution honors that tradition with considered mise-en-scène and editing rhythm, it could be a quiet gem.
The real question is what visual or performance choice makes those seven minutes feel necessary—whether it's the specific way the protagonist moves through space, or a sound design decision, or a single cut that transforms reaching-for-a-dying-lover from sentiment into something that actually lands.