Cheque polvo
2014 · 3m · España
Directed by Paco Caballero
Tones: absurdist, provocative
A couple confronts an unusual hypothetical: whether to let a partner sleep with the celebrity they fancy most, on the chance that they might one day cross paths with someone unexpected.
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The premise is so perfectly inverted it hurts—instead of the usual jealousy trap, it's a bet on statistically impossible odds, turning relationship security into a joke about celebrity proximity. Caballero gets that the whole thing is absurd and leans into it without winking, which is exactly where the subversion lives.
A tightly constructed riff on the romantic-comedy contract, one that gestures toward Rohmer's intellectual playfulness while staying agile in its own three-minute form; the restraint in the execution—knowing when to cut, what not to explain—suggests a director fluent in comedy's formal grammar.
The magic is in the specificity of the hypothetical itself: it's not about infidelity or trust, but about the absurd mathematics of desire meeting reality, and that one narrative choice—reframing the conflict as a numbers game rather than an emotional one—makes the whole piece feel like discovering a loophole in human nature rather than watching a stock couple argue.