Túnel de lavado
2019 · 14m · España
Directed by David Cánovas
Tones: contemplative, tense
Ana and Víctor, a middle-aged couple, are on their way to friends' house for dinner. Víctor decides to stop at a petrol station to buy a bottle of wine and wash the car — a decision that will change the course of their lives.
Picked by Margot
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A car wash as the fulcrum of destiny feels like it's trying to be Lynchian without earning the strangeness—too polite, too European, refuses to commit to the absurdity it's hinting at.
Cánovas understands the grammar of suspense through constraint and duration; the film's formal discipline—how it stretches a mundane errand into dread through editing and sound design—sits squarely in the European thriller tradition, precise and morally opaque.
The choice to keep the camera mostly static during the car wash sequence, letting anticipation live in what we *don't* see, transforms a 14-minute film about waiting into something genuinely unsettling on a shoestring.