Adivina quién viene a comer mañana
2012 · 31m · España
Directed by Pepe Jordana
A young veterinarian returns to her remote Galician village to tell her shepherd father she will marry a prestigious neurologist, but he mistakes neurology for black magic and plots with neighbours to ruin the wedding.
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The premise is a crowd-pleaser disguised as subversion—mistaking neurology for witchcraft is the kind of fish-out-of-water bit that plays it too safe, landing exactly where you'd expect it to land without interrogating why the joke works in the first place.
Jordana threads a sharp lineage here—the provincial comedy of misunderstanding rooted in Ealing tradition, filtered through Galician specificity—and the 31-minute structure respects the form's economy, letting cultural particularity do the thematic work without overstaying.
The film's hinge is the father's conviction; one performer's choice to play the delusion not as bumbling but as sincere parental protectiveness transforms what could've been broad comedy into something tenderer and more architecturally sound.