Completo confort
1997 · 19m · España
Directed by Juan Flahn
Tones: darkly comic, melancholic
Miranda and Ascen are friends who work in a burger joint; Ascen is an angelic, independent blonde with a gorgeous boyfriend, while Miranda is dark-haired, plain and leads a miserable life.
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The premise reads like a setup for a fairy tale moral, but Flahn seems genuinely uninterested in redeeming Miranda or punishing Ascen—he just lets them exist in their respective miseries side by side, which is perverse enough to work.
A modest but formally attentive portrait of working-class ennui; Flahn's restraint and the film's refusal to sentimentalize either character places it in a lineage of European minimalist drama that respects the viewer's intelligence.
The entire film hangs on a single tonal decision—treating Miranda's envy and Ascen's obliviousness with equal, unflinching tenderness rather than judgment—and that choice transforms what could've been reductive into something genuinely unsettling and human.