Belmonte
“What else dost thou want, Belmonte?”
When the question at the heart of Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj’s fourth feature, , is finally spoken aloud, it comes in a whisper. Javier Belmonte (Gonzalo Delgado) has just woken with a start from a Buñuelian dream in which he sat at a piano with the beautiful young Monica (Giselle Motta), caressing her back and shoulders as she played a dirge-like theme and two of his former lovers looked on in judgment. When Belmonte settles back into bed, the camera follows his movement, revealing Monica sleeping beside him. He stares at her with a pained expression, as if unsure whether this is also a dream. We can’t be sure either. The walls in the bedroom, as in the
