Un viaje de 13.000 días
2023 · 28m · España
Directed by Óscar Parra de Carrizosa
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A devastated wife tells her husband the results of his latest CT scan, and that same afternoon, immersed in grief, she meets a friendly priest — and the two are swept into an unimaginable journey.
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The scouts
The premise promises surrealism but mostly delivers grief-cinema-by-numbers; a priest-and-widow fantasy pairing that feels like it's reaching for Kaufman when it should be reaching for something weirder, something that actually earns its own strangeness.
Carrizosa constructs a formal architecture of loss and metaphysical rupture that sits comfortably in the lineage of European art cinema—the measured pacing, the tonal shifts between domestic realism and visionary sequence, the way a casual afternoon becomes cosmological—all suggest a filmmaker thinking carefully about how cinema itself mourns.
The decision to introduce the priest as a casual, almost comic figure before the tone fractures into something numinous is the hinge that works: it's a single casting and performance choice that makes the surrealism feel earned rather than imposed, lifting what could've been a two-hander drama into something genuinely disorienting.