Chicos que lloran
2015 · 7m · España
Directed by Roberto Pérez Toledo
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
Tones: darkly comic, whimsical
Marga always says there is nothing she likes more than seeing a boy cry.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise is genuinely unsettling—a girl who gets off on male vulnerability—but the film doesn't quite commit to the dark comedy angle hard enough; it keeps one foot in safe whimsy when it should go full provocation.
A tidy coming-of-age structure wrapped in Spanish language and regional specificity, but it doesn't interrogate its own conceit deeply enough to sit alongside the shorts that actually complicate adolescent desire and power.
The whimsical tone masks something genuinely twisted, and that tonal friction—especially in how the camera holds on Marga's face to let us feel her hunger without judgment—is the exact kind of compositional choice that makes a 7-minute premise into something you don't forget.