Tres veces Eva
2017 · 16m · España
Directed by Daniel León Lacave
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, theatrical
Two veteran actresses and a young one wait to obtain the leading actress's job at an audition, across the void that separates different generations.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's a waiting-room drama about actresses waiting for a role—sounds like the most consensus indie move possible, and yet Lacave's actually doing something perverse with it: turning theatrical artifice into the *point*, making the generational void tactile instead of thematic. Genuinely uninterested in feeling sorry for anyone here.
Three actresses suspended in a single space, separated by time and ambition—this is Lacave working in direct conversation with theatrical mise-en-scène and the lineage of ensemble pieces that understand how much story lives in what's *not* said. The formal restraint and precision of the staging elevates what could be sociology into something architecturally considered.
The real move is how Lacave uses the void—not as emptiness but as active space where generational difference becomes visible through proximity and silence; it's a production design choice that does all the emotional work, and on a 16-minute budget that's the kind of economy that defines singular filmmaking.