Yoguis del presente
2018 · 3m · España
Directed by Mar del Castillo
Tones: contemplative, tender
Fresh from their first yoga class, Mar is convinced that breathing, concentration and living in the present will change her life, while Leire watches the fleeting present slip away.
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The yoga-conversion-narrative is so aggressively sincere it almost loops back to subversion, but Mar del Castillo doesn't quite have the bite to make the irony land—it's just gentle, which is the opposite of what makes a premise sing.
A formally restrained two-hander that understands the rhythm of disappointment; the editing resists climax with the same discipline the protagonist resists enlightenment, situating itself in a lineage of European intimist cinema that prizes withholding over revelation.
The decision to let Leire's skepticism exist as total silence—no voiceover, no confrontation—while Mar's voice fills the space creates an asymmetry that says everything about how presence gets distributed between people; that single structural choice transforms what could be a fluff premise into something achingly specific about attention.