Súper realidad
2021 · 13m · España
Directed by Jose Maria Tros de ilarduya
Genres: drama, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A young man steps outside to find himself alone in a city of skyscrapers and, disoriented, wanders its streets and parks as sounds and events from his childhood return as visions that torment him.
Picked by Margot
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It's competent surrealism—childhood trauma as cityscape fever dream—but it doesn't want to *break* anything; it wants to be understood, and that's where the bite goes soft.
Tros de ilarduya constructs a deliberate visual language where architectural geometry and memory collapse into each other; the film sits comfortably in a lineage of European art cinema that treats interior dissolution as formal problem—and solves it with real precision.
The sound design choice—layering intimate childhood audio over anonymous urban footage—is what rescues this from wallowing; that single decision turns disorientation into something you *feel* rather than just watch.