Hiperion
2018 · 17m · España
Directed by Rubén Jiménez Sanz
Genres: crime, dark comedy, thriller
Julio and Luca decide to dispose of a corpse on the high seas, but once out there, everything turns upside down.
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The scouts
A crime thriller that yanks the rug out mid-premise and goes full absurdist—this is exactly the kind of "wait, what?" inversion that makes conventional genre watchers deeply uncomfortable, and it's impossible to look away.
Sanz demonstrates precise command of tonal registers, threading dark comedy through a formally rigorous thriller structure that recalls the Spanish nouvelle vague's subversive approach to genre; the craft lies in how deliberately he unsettles the viewer's footing.
The film's central pivot—where the sea itself becomes a character and the corpse disposal plot inverts into something stranger—hinges on a single editing/sound decision in the middle act that reframes everything that came before; that's the choice that makes the whole thing sing.