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2016 · 13m · España
Directed by Álvaro Carrero
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
A couple's argument, a jar of tomatoes that will not open and a great deal of anxiety lead the different characters who enter the scene into a limit situation they cannot control.
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A jar of tomatoes becomes an unsolvable knot that swallows a entire room's sanity—it's the kind of absurdist escalation that makes you question whether you're watching a domestic comedy or a slow-motion psychological collapse, and that uncertainty is exactly the point.
Carrero works within a lineage of Beckett-influenced constraint cinema, where the formal limitation of a single prop and enclosed space generates formal rigor in staging and editing that rewards close viewing.
The film's masterstroke is the decision to never cut away from the jar itself—keeping it visually present as each new character enters and compounds the anxiety, turning a mundane object into the emotional center of an escalating ensemble piece.