Cualquiera mata por un guion
2023 · 8m · Argentina
Directed by Carlos Lombardi
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, crime
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
Film student Angelina steals a screenplay, enters it in a contest and wins the chance to shoot it; two classmates, Tiberio and César, each blackmail her separately for the chance to direct it.
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A screenplay-theft premise that spirals into mutual blackmail is exactly the kind of meta-joke that makes audiences uncomfortable—it's a film about cinema that refuses to genuflect to it, and Lombardi knows the punchline lands harder when the joke is on desperate art students, not industry insiders.
Cualquiera mata executes a classical farce structure with precision, deploying the blackmail-reversal mechanism as both plot engine and formal constraint; the film sits comfortably in a lineage of screwball comedies that understand acceleration and timing as grammar.
The film's real coup is its commitment to treating the screenplay itself as a character—the reveal of what Angelina actually stole, and how it shapes the escalation between Tiberio and César, hinges on a single structural choice that could've been heavy-handed but instead lands with surgical lightness.