Escribiendo…
2023 · 4m · España
Directed by Pablo Olewski
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
Santi knows well that criticising his boss's work, however much she has asked him to, is harder than it seems — above all in these times.
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The premise sounds like a workplace comedy setup, but Olewski's actually mining something thornier — the paralysis of wanting to be honest in a system designed to crush it. It's a four-minute gut-punch disguised as a sketch, which is exactly the kind of Trojan horse premise that makes people uncomfortable without them knowing why.
There's a lineage here worth tracing: the cinema of small humiliations, the formal restraint of Koreeda, the tonal precision required to hold comedy and dread in the same frame. Olewski's control suggests a filmmaker aware of what the short form demands—economy of gesture, clarity of theme.
The real move here is probably in how Olewski frames Santi's silence or the specific moment of capitulation—whether it's a cut, a look, the timing of a line—that lets us feel the weight of workplace coercion without spelling it out. That's the craft decision that elevates this from observation to something that sticks.