Bereshit, una historia de mierda
2017 · 19m · España
Directed by Tony Mortes, Tridi Puñema
Genres: dark comedy, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A stunned young man has just earned proclamation as man of the year for a very special particularity. The young man stands as the only person in the world with a hole in the butt.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A film that commits to its own insane premise without winking—a guy is literally the only person on Earth with a particular anatomical difference, and he's celebrated for it—is exactly the kind of subversive absurdist gambit that makes consensus programmers nervous and Felix vindicated. The title alone ("Bereshit, a shitty story") telegraphs the irreverence; this is a film that knows what it's doing and refuses to apologize.
While the surrealist conceit is provocative, the film's real question—how does a fundamentally absurd premise sustain narrative weight for 19 minutes?—recalls a lineage of body-horror and ontological comedy that stretches from Buñuel through contemporary Latin American cinema, though the execution here feels more dependent on shock than formal precision.
The entire film hinges on whether the performance can anchor an audience to a protagonist navigating genuine bewilderment in an impossible situation; if that stumbling, dislocated energy in the lead's face works, everything else—the surrealism, the dark comedy—falls into place, and if it doesn't, the premise collapses into mere provocation.