La Entrevista
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Alex Barroso
Tones: darkly comic, provocative
While Laia nervously awaits her job interview, she discovers that the boss belittles the previous candidates and mocks her; fed up with the humiliation, Laia makes an unexpected decision and walks out, making it clear that her dignity is worth more than a job.
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The scouts
Everyone expects the empowerment walk-out; Barroso risks something weirder by making us complicit in the boss's cruelty before the reversal lands, which is either brave or a miscalculation—either way, it refuses to be comfortable.
A tidy three-minute moral fable that owes something to the dignity-as-resistance lineage of labor cinema, though it trades ambiguity for clarity in ways that feel more sitcom than provocation.
The architecture hinges on a single performance choice—Laia's shift from nervous compliance to quiet resolve—and Barroso finds the exact moment of that pivot without overplaying it, which is why the exit reads as earned rather than preachy.