Un par de ciegos
2014 · 14m · España
Directed by David Esquivel
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Any given morning, in any given flat, in any given neighbourhood, in any given city, Anna and Simón are two people who try to talk, to listen, even to love, although prejudices, acquired roles and fears play against them: the head against the heart, a pair of blind people on top of a bed.
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The premise promises subversion—two blind people literalizing emotional blindness—but the execution is almost *too* measured, too willing to let the metaphor do the heavy lifting instead of breaking it open into something weirder.
Esquivel anchors an intimate chamber drama in sustained formal control: the bed as both literal and symbolic space, the dialogue stripped to its essentials, the camera's restraint allowing the language of touch and silence to become the film's true vocabulary—this is measured cinema aware of its debt to European minimalism.
The decision to keep the camera mostly still and let the actors' hands do the searching—the specific choreography of touch between two people who can't see each other's faces—transforms what could be a thesis film into something tactile and lived.