De cómo superé la pandemia
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Álvaro Blázquez
Genres: comedy, essay film
Tones: absurdist, contemplative
A man explains to the camera how he got through the pandemic: by talking to himself, literally.
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A pandemic survival story told through self-talk could've been the most exhausted premise of 2025, but Blázquez somehow makes talking to yourself feel genuinely transgressive—like he's cracked the joke everyone else was too tired to tell.
The essay-film framework is sturdy and unpretentious; Blázquez locates himself within a lineage of first-person documentary-comedy that values restraint and the camera's witness over spectacle.
The entire film hinges on Blázquez's willingness to actually have a conversation with himself—not perform it—and that choice, that specific refusal to wink at the camera, is what transforms three minutes of someone talking alone into something that feels essential.