If you loved Ensayo de un crimen, try Simón del desierto
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Luis Buñuel, and they both carry the foreign gem, pitch black, surreal mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Ensayo de un crimen, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Simón del desierto is
A desert ascetic’s spiritual Zoom call with the heavens is interrupted by the devil’s Slack messages. Forty feet up a pillar in 5th-century Syria, Simon waits for a sign neither God nor the tempter seems eager to send. Six takes later, the reels run out.
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