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21 Positions

2023 · 97 min

An intimate, quietly tense portrait of a couple's private life, unfolding in slow, sunlit fragments that feel both tender and uneasy.

Directed by
Néstor Ruiz Medina
Genres
Drama
Starring
María Lázaro, Fernando Barona, Mario Fernández Alonso
Overview
21 key moments in the life of a couple in 21 sequence shots filmed in 16 mm, shot entirely in Andalucia: this is the premise of the feature debut of Néstor Ruiz Medina, Goya nominee for his short film Baraka. María and Fer live an intense and complicit love, in an idyllic setting by the coast of Cádiz: a house with land, a vegetable garden with chickens, a rich social life, and time to spend with each other. Since money does matter in life, all this is sustained by exposing their sex life on OnlyFans, a social network with paid memberships, a thing they carry with ease and grace. What really lies behind all this, along with its consequences, is what we will see in these 21 moments of intimacy: the emotional flipside of OnlyFans brought by the cinema.

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Directed by
Néstor Ruiz Medina
Genres
Drama
Starring
María Lázaro, Fernando Barona, Mario Fernández Alonso
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • love
    • identity
    • class
    • work
    Places
    • countryside
    • home
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex strong
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance6
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight7

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    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Néstor Ruiz Medina
    Written by
    Néstor Ruiz Medina, Fernando Barona, María Lázaro
    Starring
    María Lázaro, Fernando Barona, Mario Fernández Alonso
    Cinematography
    Marino Pardo
    Runtime
    97 min
    Country
    Spain
    Languages
    Spanish

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