Al Compás (To the Beat, in English) presents a rather interesting scenario. There’s a man in an office, and he has with him a few papers. He looks over each one, just like a conductor, and arranges the sheets for his convenience. With the stage set, he starts the metronome. Music plays, the door opens, and the actors come in one by one. Continue Reading
No Mires Ahí (Don’t Look There, in English) starts with Irene, a little girl who loves and worries about her sick father. After some time, Marta, her sister, comes home to hear bad news: that her father has passed on. While talking to her mother about how Irene does not seem to be coping well with the loss, Marta starts to see visions in her bedroom. Continue Reading
El Reloj (The Watch, in English) is about two teenage boys who are waiting at a bus stop. They talk a bit, and find that they know each other from that one double date with their respective girlfriends. They end up taking the same cab home, and one of them invites the other to his house. The other agrees. Continue Reading
Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog, in English) is a curious short film. It has no coherent plot, even though it mentions scenes that happened at around “three in the morning” or “sixteen years ago”. It features surrealist elements, and has plenty of conversation-starting situations: a hand with ants crawling out of it, a moth with the symbol of a dead head, and, of course, a razor slitting a live woman’s eyeball. Continue Reading
Los Ojos Cerrados (Eyes Closed, in English) is a film about Iris, a girl with multiple sclerosis. She is left all alone, since both her mother and her sister died. One day, she is unable to get up, and asks for help from a girl passing by. Little does she know that she is about to get three wishes from this stranger. Continue Reading