La Factoría
2013 · 17m · España
Directed by Juan Caunedo Domínguez
Genres: dark comedy, drama, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
Inside a trash-television show, a naked presenter, scheming would-be Machiavellis pulling rotten strings and a crew caught out at work feed a wounded programme that survives on its own blood. The result is a crazed world with no easy fix at any horizon.
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A naked man hemorrhaging a doomed TV show while wannabe producers cannibalize the corpse—this is what happens when you refuse to look away from the machine eating itself. Caunedo gets that the real obscenity isn't nudity or chaos, it's the banality of ambition, and he lets the absurdity breathe without apology.
The film operates within a lineage of Buñuelian institutional satire and media critique, though it risks sacrificing structural clarity for visceral excess; the editing sustains the fever-dream momentum, but the thematic throughline occasionally dissolves into pure stylistic provocation.
The decision to keep the presenter nakedly literal—exposed, vulnerable, at the center of every frame—while the scheming happens in shadows around him transforms what could be a standard media satire into something uncomfortably intimate; it's a single formal choice that reorients the entire moral weight of the piece.