Desaliñada

The scouts

A salad and a fish falling in love in a walk-in cooler is exactly the kind of premise that makes consensus critics squirm, and Salmerón leans into the absurdity without winking—that's the move that separates genuine weirdness from twee gimmick.

The surrealist romance sits comfortably within a lineage stretching back through Buñuel and the European avant-garde, though the film's 23-minute runtime and kitchen-as-liminal-space staging feel more earnest about their formal conceits than the tradition typically allows.

The decision to shoot this entirely from the cold room's locked perspective—never cutting to the outside kitchen, never breaking the hermetic space—transforms what could've been a novelty concept into something genuinely haunting about isolation and belonging.