Caretos (Faces)
2013 · 6m · España
Directed by Luis Sánchez-Polack
Paula's perfect man is not one man but three friends, Javier, Mario and Fede, and the three must work out which of them will win her over while Paula makes it difficult.
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The premise reads like rom-com template work—three guys, one girl, obvious stakes—but I'd need to see if Sánchez-Polack actually subverts the love triangle or just executes it competently. Right now it feels like the kind of thing that plays safe.
A Spanish comedy working in the three-suitor tradition, structured with the formal geometry such premises demand; whether it lands depends entirely on how precisely the director orchestrates the ensemble timing and the editing rhythm that makes or breaks this kind of mechanical farce.
The entire film lives or dies on a single choice: how the director frames Paula's agency in those moments between the three men—whether she's a prize or a player—and if there's one edit, one glance, one line read that flips the power dynamic and makes this feel like something earned rather than inherited.