La Curiosa Conexión de Juanentonce y Kripton
2009 · 18m · España
Directed by Santiago Moga
Clark Kent is travelling through Spain when he meets Juanentonce and Soledad, a couple who run a local petrol station. Juanentonce dreams of flying with Superman and Soledad of finding a man to take her dancing in the village, but Clark insists that he is not Superman.
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A petrol station in rural Spain where Superman never shows up and nobody cares — it's a perfectly perverse inversion of the hero mythology that everyone else genuinely buys into, and the film knows exactly how funny that refusal is.
Moga's treatment here sits in a lineage of European whimsy that knows its debts to magical realism and the picaresque, though the construction occasionally favors quirk over the formal precision that would elevate it into the conversation.
The film's entire architecture hinges on Juanentonce's performance — that specific register of yearning-without-desperation he brings to the Superman fixation is what keeps this from collapsing into mere whimsy, and Moga trusts him completely to carry it.