Love AOVE. Cortometraje romántico de Luisje Moyano
2019 · 16m · España
Directed by Luisje Moyano
Jesús Galván, the Mozart of olive oil, becomes obsessed with achieving a unique colour for the new oil he will present in public, to the bewilderment of the brothers who share ownership of his mill.
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A romance disguised as an olive oil obsession movie—the kind of premise that sounds like a joke until you realize it's actually tender and completely sincere about it. Moyano commits to the absurdist bit so hard that it becomes genuinely moving, which is exactly the contrarian move everyone else would've chickened out of.
The film's whimsy feels somewhat at odds with the romantic arc it's attempting; while the production is competent, it doesn't quite find the formal rigor or visual language that would anchor such an unusual premise within a recognizable lineage.
The specificity of making an entire emotional story hinge on the pursuit of a single colour—that obsessive, almost fetishistic focus on one material detail—is the decision that transmutes a silly premise into something that actually works.