Feminazi
2017 · 17m · España
Directed by Diana López Varela
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, tense
Rocío embraces radical feminism, alarming her boyfriend Manu, who questions her constantly but never lifts a finger at home. Their differences explode into a battle over cooperation and power.
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Most people see the title and think they know what they're getting—heavy-handed ideology wrapped in a preachy bow—but Varela does something far weirder: she makes the boyfriend's confusion genuinely funny and genuinely tragic at once, turning what could've been a sloganeering pamphlet into a comedy about the unbearable gap between what someone believes and what they're willing to do.
The film's formal restraint—its refusal to editorializing through montage or music, its commitment to the domestic frame as both trap and arena—places it in conversation with a lineage of relationship dramas that use comedy as a tool for examining power structures, though the execution occasionally tilts toward situation over character.
The brilliance here lives in the sound design of Rocío's voice: how Varela shifts her register between moments of conviction and moments of exhaustion, a single performance choice that transforms what could be a cartoon argument into something that actually breathes and breaks.