Busco trabajo
2025 · 7m · Uruguay
Directed by Stiven di Oro
Genres: comedy
A hurried, somewhat scatterbrained young man arrives at a job interview in a big company. Between nerves, misunderstandings and unusual situations, he will soon discover that the office holds more surprises than he imagined.
Picked by Zoe
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The premise reads like every other fish-out-of-water comedy, which is exactly why I'd normally pass—but something about Di Oro's willingness to let absurdity bloom in an office setting without winking at the camera suggests he's actually subverting the form, not just repeating it.
A competent comedy in the Latin American tradition of workplace satire, though the execution feels more interested in gag accumulation than the formal precision that would distinguish it from countless festival entries in this vein.
The real work here is in Di Oro's timing and the actor's commitment to playing genuine confusion rather than buffoonery—that choice of playing the character's disorientation as sincere vulnerability rather than slapstick is what transforms a high-concept premise into something that actually lands.