La pelu de Rosi
2018 · 9m · España
Directed by Montse Bodas, Raquel Troyano
Cristina attends a job interview and recounts, in a very particular way, latest professional experience at Rosi's hair salon. An attempt to keep the job by selling a different product in a novel way ended without the expected result.
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The premise wants to be a deadpan office comedy but settles into fairly predictable absurdist territory—Cristina's interview story lands the occasional subversive moment, but the film doesn't push the formal weirdness far enough to genuinely destabilize your expectations.
A precisely calibrated chamber piece that uses the job interview frame as both structure and irony, with the directors demonstrating real control over pacing and tonal shifts between Cristina's recounting and the salon floor itself.
What makes this work is the directors' choice to let the interview subject's embellishment become the visual style itself—the gap between how Cristina *describes* her salon failure and what we see creates this subtle comedy that lives entirely in that formal friction.