Another type of 'queer' cinema

David Moragas's cinema occupies a little-trodden space in Catalan cinema: that of stories focused on the daily existence of queer people. Moragas is part of what our colleague Eulàlia Iglesias defined as a kind of new Catalan queer cinema which would also include authors like Marc Ferrer or Zaida Carmona. Like any label, this encompasses very different sensibilities and Moragas's proposal is unique in moving away from irony or camp humor to construct an intimate drama that recalls the universe of the first Cesc Gay (that of A la ciutat). Un altre home, his first industrial feature film (after the very indie Astormy night) and shot entirely in Catalan, addresses the life crisis of a young person in their thirties at a typical crossroads of their age: to be sensible in their relationship or to set out to explore what life offers them beyond their immaculate Sant Antoni apartment, an option personified by their attractive new neighbor.

As his short films, especially Demà ho deixem

, already showed, Moragas has a natural talent for writing couple scenes in which, subtly, the cracks of an apparently perfect relationship become evident. In Un altre home, the Tarragona-born filmmaker perfects this skill, but also integrates other narrative lines (like that of the protagonist's sister, a Bruna Cusí who is a bit over the top) that do not end up working as effectively, a fact that ends up giving the whole a certain sense of imbalance.