Yo soy de amor
2010 · 9m · España
Directed by Carlo D'Ursi
Tones: darkly comic, provocative
In their usual corner of the neighbourhood park, two friends talk about relationships: one has just been dumped and is 'of love'; the other is a womaniser with his own philosophy of life.
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Two guys sitting on a bench talking about love and sex sounds like the least subversive premise imaginable, but D'Ursi somehow makes the whole thing feel like a provocation—the womaniser's philosophy and the dumped guy's vulnerability flip between comedy and something genuinely unsettling in a way that refuses to let you settle into either zone.
There's a deliberate restraint here that recalls the conversational minimalism of early Kiarostami or Oliveira, where the camera's stillness and the editing's refusal to cut away becomes its own formal argument about intimacy and self-deception.
The genius move is that we never quite see the womaniser's face clearly—it's just enough of a shadow and angled away—which forces all the weight onto the dumped friend's micro-expressions and the sound design of the park around them, making a 9-minute bench scene feel like eavesdropping.