Vértices
2004 · 17m · España
Directed by Juanan Martínez
Genres: drama, fantasy, romance
Tones: contemplative, surreal, tender
The past, present and future of a couple, posed in a very special way where reality and unexplained phenomena are intermingled — small touches of fantasy that never stop centring the story on the reality of a couple.
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The premise wants to be profound—past/present/future collapsed into one image—but it plays it safe, letting the fantasy elements hover around the couple like decoration instead of interrogating what it means to break time itself; a missed opportunity to actually mess with narrative causality.
Martínez constructs a formal architecture where temporal collapse becomes a visual and editorial problem, not just a poetic gesture—the restraint of keeping reality centered while reality warps is the kind of considered structural choice that rewards close viewing and lingers in conversation.
The real move here is the decision to let the surreal elements remain *small*—unexplained, unforced—which means everything rests on how the edit and the performance hold the emotional weight between those uncanny moments, and that disciplined choice is what transforms a high concept into something intimate.