La Nueva Normalidad
2021 · 1m · España
Directed by Luigi Rodríguez
Dating during the Covid pandemic becomes a comedy of restrictions and improvisation. Two people try to flirt under the rules of the new normality.
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Covid romance comedy is the kind of timely premise that usually calcifies into greeting-card sentimentality, but Rodríguez's one-minute absurdist take suggests he's more interested in the constraint itself as a punchline than the earnest 'we're all in this together' stuff—which, fair.
A competent comedic short that mines pandemic-era manners for light humor, though it largely inhabits well-trodden territory of topical romance shorts without the formal invention or tonal precision that would distinguish it in the festival circuit.
The magic here is restraint: one minute to compress the entire awkwardness of masked flirtation and distancing rules into a rhythm that actually *feels* like the speed of modern dating, where the setup does more work than the punchline ever could.