Ven hacia la luz
2017 · 6m · España
Directed by César Chamero
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, sensual
A day follows an ordinary person from waking and dressing through chores and duties to the best moment of the day. Leisure arrives with a good glass of wine to taste, savour and enjoy, giving colour to life.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's basically a love letter to doing nothing, which should be boring as hell, but Chamero's refusal to dramatize the mundane—no epiphany, no twist, just wine as the day's apex—is quietly radical in its anti-climax.
A formally restrained essay film that locates itself squarely in the tradition of quotidian cinema and slow observation; the structured arc from duty to sensory pleasure demonstrates real compositional rigor and a curator's eye for what constitutes a complete cinematic thought.
The genius move is treating the wine tasting not as a moment of transcendence but as texture—the decision to let taste and color literally become the film's visual language transforms what could've been mannered into something tactile and alive.