Descanse en match
2021 · 11m · España
Directed by Marta Lario
Genres: dark comedy, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
On a blind date after death, two widely known historical figures — Frida Kahlo and Adolf Hitler — meet over a romantic dinner with the chance to escape Purgatory at stake.
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Most scouts would run screaming from the premise alone—pairing Frida and Hitler in a rom-com setup feels like it shouldn't work, shouldn't *exist*—but Lario commits to the absurdist logic so completely that it becomes genuinely subversive, turning the most repellent meeting imaginable into something that makes you laugh at the audacity and then question why you did.
The film engages with a lineage of surrealist cinema and dark comedy that stretches from Buñuel through contemporary European practitioners, though the conceptual boldness here occasionally overwhelms the formal precision required to make such extreme subject matter land with sustained control.
What elevates this beyond provocation is a single directorial choice—the decision to play the dinner *earnestly*, letting the absurdist premise breathe without winking at the camera, which transforms what could've been a cheap gag into something oddly tender and genuinely disorienting.