A o B
2010 · 10m · España
Directed by Leticia Dolera
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
María, a completely desperate unemployed actress, turns to her agent to help her make a decision of vital importance, in an acid comedy about the film world.
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A o B skewers the desperation machinery of cinema itself — that poisoned space where ambition meets total indignity — and does it with the kind of acid precision that makes you squirm and laugh at the same moment. It's the rare comedy that doesn't ask you to pick a side between dark and ridiculous; it just locks you in the room where they collide.
Dolera's structural economy—distilling the entire moral vertigo of show business into a single agent-client conversation—recalls the best traditions of European satire, where formal constraint becomes the vehicle for philosophical unease. The film's refusal to resolve into sentiment or comfortable irony positions it within a lineage of rigorous, uncomfortable comedy.
The entire film turns on how Dolera holds on María's face during the pitch—that almost imperceptible shift where desperation calcifies into something colder—and that single acting choice transforms what could've been a sketch into something genuinely unsettling. It's a ten-minute film that knows exactly which moment to trust with no dialogue.