Tarot de Amores
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Adrián Rivero Pérez
Genres: drama, fantasy, mystery
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A tormented woman asks a fortune teller for answers about her future, but the cards reveal far more than she could have imagined.
Picked by Margot
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Tarot de Amores plays it frustratingly straight—fortune teller, troubled woman, cosmic reveal—and lands exactly where you'd expect it to. The surrealism here feels decorative rather than genuinely destabilizing, which is a shame because the bones could've been something weirder.
Rivero Pérez understands the grammar of tarot cinema and melancholic portraiture; the film's deliberate pacing and visual formality sit comfortably in a lineage of European art-house mysticism, with each card beat treated as a considered compositional moment rather than plot machinery.
The real move is how the sound design—those ambient whispers layered under silence—does the narrative work that the dialogue won't, turning a standard fortune-telling premise into something genuinely disquieting with almost no budget.