Twelve minutes. Nine murderers. Zero excuses. Ready to judge them all?
This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes straightforwardly. The Testimonies are individual confessions by different persons that have nothing in common but the fact that all committed murder.
Acting
Ensemble cast delivers nine distinct moral collapses in minutes.
Direction
Nunes turns theatrical constraint into suffocating intimacy.
Director
Rita Nunes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Max Aub's 'Exemplary Crimes' was written in exile; the book smuggled Spanish Republican trauma into allegory. Nunes inherits that political unease.
The 'minus' in the title refers not to subtraction but to temperature—emotional coldness measured in negative degrees. The nine killers share a deadness that outlasts their crimes.
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