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2011 · 4m · España
Directed by David Galán Galindo
A couple learns that although sincerity and trust matter, the most important ingredient for a relationship to work is maintaining good taste.
Picked by Margot
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A short that resolves its romantic tension with a thesis about *taste* instead of the usual emotional crescendo—subversive enough, but the whimsy undercuts any real bite, and it lands closer to Hallmark wisdom than genuine subversion.
Galán Galindo constructs a deceptively elegant argument about aesthetics and intimacy, where formal choices around mise-en-scène and editing rhythm become the actual content; the film knows exactly what lineage it's working in—romantic comedy as philosophical form—and executes with precision.
The entire film hinges on a single tonal choice: playing the 'good taste' premise completely straight in a 4-minute runtime, which transforms what could've been cutesy into something genuinely clever—that commitment to the bit is what makes the small scale feel inevitable rather than limiting.