Everything Else is Noise — Nicolás Pereda [FID Marseille ’26 Review]

A longtime favorite filmmaker at InRO, this writer had only seen one work by Nicolás Pereda, Minotaur (2015) — a surreal exploration of stasis and languor amongst Mexico’s bourgeoisie. Still, that film quickly primes one to expect long takes, medium shots, and the evolution of the director’s (minor) themes and variations in future films. In his latest feature, Everything Else is Noise (2026), which slyly cites Minotaur in a joke, Pereda lays out his theme in his opening scene, a...