El Regalo (loco por ella)
2017 · 9m · España
Directed by Tino Fernández
Tones: darkly comic, whimsical
Ricardo, manager of a comic shop, is about to give his wife Luisa a wedding-anniversary gift that neither of them will forget.
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A wedding-anniversary gift premise that goes *exactly* where you'd expect it not to—Fernández wrings genuine dark comedy out of the gap between romantic intention and chaotic reality, refusing the sentiment everyone else would've neutered it with.
The film demonstrates careful tonal control in its oscillation between domestic comedy and something more unsettling, though it operates more comfortably in genre pleasure than in the kind of formal experimentation that lingers.
The single choice that anchors this—the decision to let the comedy live in Ricardo's escalating panic rather than in broad gags—transforms what could've been a simple premise into something genuinely earned and specific to his character's particular desperation.