Son dos días
2011 · 11m · España
Directed by Andrés Lopetegui Santos
Genres: dark comedy, drama, fantasy
Tones: melancholic, surreal, whimsical
On a dark night in a cemetery, a woman weeps at the tomb of her recently deceased husband — until the curious characters who emerge from the graves remind her that life is only two days.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A grief film that refuses sentiment and instead summons actual *ghosts* to sass a widow into acceptance—this is the kind of tonal collision (melancholic + whimsical in the same frame) that makes most programmers nervous, which is exactly why it works.
Lopetegui locates himself in a lineage of magical-realist fables and memento mori traditions, executing the tonal register with formal precision so the grotesque and tender elements don't collapse into cuteness.
The decision to make the grave-dwellers *curious and characterful* rather than threatening reframes the entire emotional calculus—suddenly a widow's crisis becomes an ensemble moment, and that one tonal pivot elevates everything.