Crimen perfecto
2023 · 4m · España
Directed by Darío Facal
Genres: crime, dark comedy, thriller
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
A woman who has just committed a murder discovers while trying to bury the body that the victim is not quite dead, and panic leads her to kill a second time.
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The premise promises dark comedy but lands in something weirder—a escalating panic logic where each murder spawns the next, turning the whole 'perfect crime' genre inside out. Nobody else would've built a 4-minute short on pure comedic momentum through corpse-related incompetence, and it shouldn't work, but it does.
Facal demonstrates formal control over tone, sustaining the tightrope between thriller and absurdist comedy without letting either collapse the other; the editing rhythm is precise enough that you feel the architecture of each beat.
The killer choice here is the sound design during the second murder—that specific moment where panic audio overtakes dialogue, which reframes the whole thing from plot to pure psychological state in under four minutes.