Hola soy Rafa
2017 · 4m · España
Directed by Rafa Rodríguez
Genres: comedy, fantasy, romance
Rafa suffers from a morpho-genetic syndrome that completely changes his body every night. When he meets Mónica, the condition takes an extra unexpected turn.
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A morpho-genetic body-horror premise wrapped in rom-com wrapping paper—which should be grating, but Rodríguez leans so hard into the absurdist friction that it becomes genuinely subversive; the real provocation is treating radical physical transformation as a love story problem, not a tragedy.
Structurally clever in its economy, though the film sits somewhere between whimsy and magical realism without fully committing to either lineage; the tonal balancing act feels more playful than formally rigorous, which limits its resonance within the tradition of body-transformation cinema.
The pivot happens in how Rodríguez treats Rafa's changing form not as spectacle but as an editing problem—cutting between night transformations with such rhythmic precision that the metamorphosis becomes emotionally legible rather than just visually weird; that single decision makes the absurdity *feel* like intimacy.