La gente que come mucho
2011 · 23m
Directed by Brays Efe
Marina loves eating and frequents all-you-can-eat buffets, and with nobody to accompany her she creates a website where users can meet anonymously just to eat.
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A loneliness-as-platform premise that could've been maudlin instead pivots into absurdist social commentary—Marina's all-you-can-eat buffet dating site is so genuinely weird and unselfconscious about its own logic that it bypasses sentiment entirely and lands somewhere funnier and sadder than expected.
Brays Efe situates this squarely in a lineage of European comedy-dramas about minor social rituals and human connection, executing the tonal balance with restraint; the editing favors quiet observation over broad laughs, letting the formal precision of the conceit carry the emotional weight.
The decision to film the buffet sequences with the same affectionate, almost reverential framing as intimate moments—treating consumption and connection as formally indistinguishable—is the specific craft move that makes this whole strange premise sing.