Knowing Nicolas Pereda's early work, I'd be inclined to say that his medium long film Los Ausentes marks a new era in his filmmaking. The trailer already looked haunting and different from Pereda's usual filmmaking. The colour palette is the same, the actors have the same aura around them. And yet, and yet...
Los Ausentes is, first of all, about an old, fragile man who loses his house near the beach. I assume he has lived there all his life . . .
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