Cola-Limón
2017 · 7m · España
Directed by Marco Huertas
Genres: dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
A social worker directs a therapy group for Anonymous Symptoms. All the participants share a common enemy: a new cola-lemon flavoured analgesic.
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A therapy group united against a consumer product—it's the kind of premise that sounds ridiculous until you realize it's the most honest satire of collective anxiety and manufactured enemies we've seen in years. Huertas doesn't wink; he commits, and that refusal to explain the absurdity is exactly why it lands.
The formal precision here—the group session structure, the deadpan delivery, the restraint in visual language—positions itself squarely in the lineage of Bunuel and early Ealing, where the surreal emerges from institutional rigidity rather than spectacle.
The decision to make the cola-lemon bottle itself absent, letting the group's collective fixation do all the work, transforms a joke premise into something genuinely unsettling—it's economy of means that forces the audience to do the imagining.