Absurda cenicienta
2014 · 4m · España
Directed by Óscar Aibar
Genres: comedy, experimental, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A reflection on online dating: nobody can guarantee that the sweet girl chatted with for months is not a Romanian trucker or an accountant from Albacete, in a world where everyone has become absurd Cinderellas running toward their digital carriage.
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Aibar takes the fairy tale—maybe the most exhausted premise in cinema—and weaponizes it against the delusion of digital romance; it's a four-minute middle finger to the assumption that anyone online is who they say they are, and it commits to the absurdity hard enough that it actually lands.
The film engages intelligently with a lineage of satirical deconstructions of myth, though the experimental execution occasionally overwhelms the conceptual rigor; there's a formal awareness at play, but it struggles to maintain the tonal discipline that would elevate it beyond provocation.
The decision to strip the Cinderella narrative down to its pure digital anxiety—everyone as a potential impostor, everyone grotesquely transformed by the screen—gets executed with an economy that makes the absurdism feel earned rather than imposed.