Leones

A group of friends is walking in a dense forest. It’s summer, they have time to play with words, to lose to one another. One of the boys listens repeatedly to the same recording of the voices of the group. They have already been in that exact location, but they are not lost. The references announce an outcome to which they refuse to surrender. The meticulous work of image and sound of the film’s young director Jazmín López creates a space that is as real as it is magical. There is a tension in the rhythmic passing of time in Leones, sweet at first and then wild, agitated. Will the pack, as brave as this first film, receive the tragic end announced? (M. M.)