70 m2
2011 · 15m · España
Directed by Miguel Ángel Carmona
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
Iván is determined to propose to his girlfriend, but on his way to the date a series of unfortunate coincidences traps him in a seemingly endless loop of catastrophic events.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A proposal film that weaponizes slapstick into metaphysical dread—the premise sounds rom-com but Carmona drowns it in escalating cosmic hostility until you're not sure if you're watching a love story or a man's descent into purgatory. Everyone else would've played it safe; Felix watches it twice.
The absurdist machinery here is precisely calibrated, inheriting from Tati's spatial comedy and Kaufman's recursive despair, each catastrophe a formal variation on the last—the editing rhythm becomes the film's argument about fate and agency.
The entire film lives or dies on Carmona's decision to keep the protagonist's face almost neutral through escalating horror, letting the environment's cruelty do the emotional work rather than mining reactions—it's the restraint that makes the surrealism land.