Como el buen cafe
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Cesar Rodriguez Fontana
Tones: absurdist, theatrical
A film director calls an online meeting with his team for the first read-through of the script of their next short film.
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A film about making a film that probably deconstructs itself into knots—the kind of meta-theatrical provocation that makes most programmers nervous and that's exactly why it works. Three minutes of people staring at screens is somehow the least boring premise you'll see all month.
The form echoes Kaufman and the Safdie brothers' procedural obsessions, but what interests here is whether the script-within-script maintains rigor or collapses into easy irony; the theatrical tone suggests Rodriguez Fontana is aware of that lineage and playing against it, which is either very smart or very indulgent.
The magic lives in whatever happens in those Zoom boxes—whether it's a single reaction shot, the timing of when someone unmutes, or some audio detail that makes the artificiality suddenly feel claustrophobic rather than gimmicky. That's the one choice that determines if this soars or sinks.