Jota y Hache
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Pedro Rudolphi
Genres: comedy, crime, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
In Tarantino style, two painters hatch a brilliant plan — 'after this we retire' — but everything that can go wrong, does.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A three-minute Tarantino pastiche about painters planning retirement sounds like the most predictable setup imaginable — and then everything implodes in the exact way you didn't see coming, which is precisely why it works. This is subversion by compression: Felix loves a premise that disarms you with its obviousness before yanking the rug out.
Rudolphi deploys the heist-gone-wrong structure with formal precision, but the real craft lives in how economically he invokes Tarantino's visual language only to abandon it — a deliberate gesture toward postmodern pastiche that sits squarely in the lineage of meta-genre comedy.
In three minutes, the choice to compress the entire 'one last job' mythology into pure slapstick collision — where the painters' meticulous plan meets reality — is what elevates this from homage to something urgent; it's all about rhythm and the exact beat where control breaks.