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.

Felix

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.

Margot

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.

Zoe