15 días
2000 · 29m · España
Directed by Rodrigo Cortés
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
A mockumentary tells the story of Cástor, a man who lived by exploiting the trial periods and return rights of consumer goods.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A 29-minute ode to parasitic capitalism disguised as a character study—Cortés found the funniest possible angle on late-stage consumer culture by making the protagonist a folk hero, not a villain. Everyone else would've made this a lecture; Felix gets why the mockumentary form is the only honest way to tell it.
The mockumentary registers as formal homage to Buñuel's deadpan social critique, though Cortés leans harder into absurdist comedy than his predecessors; the restraint in the editing—letting scenes breathe without underlining—shows a director conscious of how satire curdles when it oversells.
The tonal pivot that makes this work is the decision to frame Cástor with genuine sympathy rather than contempt—one performance choice that reorients the entire satire and forces viewers to complicit rather than superior, which on a modest budget is everything.