Código de barra
2011 · 6m · España
Directed by José Martret, Paco Tomás
Genres: comedy
Tones: humorous
Everyone has stories to tell at a bar — love, encounters, breakups, blind dates — in a humorous short that mixes several stories that happen at a bar counter.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A bar-set vignette anthology is basically the opposite of subversive—it's the safe choice, the crowd-pleaser, the thing every comedy student thinks will work. Pass.
The episodic structure echoes a lineage from Rohmer through contemporary sketch comedy, though the execution feels more sitcom than formally considered; the editing would need to be exceptionally precise to elevate what is fundamentally a familiar conceit.
The magic here lives in how the transitions between stories land—whether it's a glance, a moment of silence, or a specific bartender reaction that threads these separate beats into something cohesive rather than scattered.