Eleven episodes portray different encounters in Barcelona during the course of a single night towards the end of the millennium.
Acting
Sergi López carries three roles like it's nothing. Shape-shifter energy.
Direction
Pons weaves 11 threads without dropping a single stitch.
Production
1998 Barcelona glows with pre-digital grime and possibility.
Director
Ventura Pons
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Caresses belongs to Barcelona's 'cine de la autonomía'—films made possible by Spain's 1978 constitution and Catalan cultural funding. Pons shot guerrilla-style in actual locations, often without permits.
The eleven episodes mirror the eleven strokes of 'caresses'—each encounter a touch that wounds or heals, never neutral. Pons structured it after Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde but stripped the class hierarchy for something more anarchic.
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