In a culture that tends to favor flashy, look-at-me filmmaking, a director with a gentle touch is sometimes just the breezy caress we need. Spanish writer-director Carla Simón has fashioned a shimmering, affecting fictionalized story from one that she lived firsthand: her parents died of AIDS when she was very young, and she was left in the care of her uncle and his family. What were her birth parents’ lives like? Through filmmaking, she hoped to fill in the missing puzzle pieces. In Romería,