Address: Elena Trape
artists: Laia Costa, Daniel Pérez Prado and Aina Clotet
Year: 2023
premiere June 2, 2023
★★★
protagonist “Els Encantats” she is a lady (Laia Costa) facing an emotional separation and above all, having to leave his daughter days when the girl should be with her father. To describe the hero’s bewilderment and pain, Elena TrapeCo-signing the script with Miguel Ibáñez Monroy makes two decisions that are as interesting as they are daring. Firstly break the linearity typical stories that reveal a grieving process, and beyond that, do it almost imperceptibly. ‘Els Encantats’ is very stimulating in terms of hiding information and raising the ellipsis. The second is to not only limit this confusion and this pain (until a certain moment when it is better not to reveal it, the hero does not express how he feels), but also to allow himself to camouflage himself with unexpected material. most physical humor, even scatological.
This is a risky binary bet. The over-control of narration and the stealth of the protagonist make ‘Els Encantats’ feel a bit rigid at times. Still, the movie offers beautiful moments when it flows (the way it tells the emotional memory about the places, the story with the neighbor, the final monologue). And despite possible incompatibilities, risk in storytelling It will always be more interesting than a bet on the safe place.