Lunes
2016 · 10m · España
Directed by Carmelo Egea
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: contemplative, surreal, tense
Juanma Utrera seems a normal family man — up early, breakfast, off to work — but every second, action and decision in his routine forms an intricate, unstable house of cards.
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The premise is solid enough—mundane man, secret fragility—but Egea doesn't subvert it; he just illustrates it with competent surrealism. It's the kind of film that *feels* experimental without actually interrogating why we're watching a house of cards metaphor play out for ten minutes.
There's formal discipline in how Egea constructs each micro-catastrophe, a measured escalation that echoes the precision of Koreeda or early Haneke—the editing reveals character through routine, which is classical work, but it doesn't quite transcend its own formal exercise.
The genius move is the sound design: every breakfast clink, every footstep becomes load-bearing weight, and that acoustic choice—treating mundane life as structural precarity—transforms what could be a thin conceit into something genuinely unsettling on a micro-budget.