Todas las Rosas son para Lola
2020 · 9m · Argentina
Directed by Carlos Lascano
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, romance
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Back in his home town and about to be reunited with his platonic childhood love, nostalgia invades Joao as he recalls the details of that dark, unrequited love story.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's a competent nostalgia piece that plays it straight—exactly the kind of tender coming-of-age romance that gets festival applause and then vanishes. I'd need to see something deliberately broken or weird lurking underneath to care.
Lascano constructs a formally deliberate meditation on retrospective longing, where the gap between past and present becomes the film's true subject; the restraint in the editing and the measured pacing suggest a filmmaker conversant with the European art-cinema tradition of emotional archaeology.
There's a specific textural choice here—likely in how memory sequences are color-graded or sound-designed relative to the present—that separates the nostalgic fantasy from lived reality and makes the emotional architecture click without spelling it out.