Mejor solo
2007 · 13m · España
Directed by Jorge Dantart
Genres: comedy
Tones: contemplative, humorous
All that Gonzalo aspires to is to be left alone from time to time, but it seems that all his efforts to be alone are useless, in a comedy that tells the adventures of a man who seeks his smile.
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A guy wants solitude and keeps failing—it's thin premise stuff, the kind of sit-com setup that usually tanks. But Dantart's doing something weirder with the tone, letting contemplation crack through the comedy in ways that resist the easy punchline.
The film sits comfortably in a lineage of European comedy-of-manners shorts, with a clear throughline and measured pacing, though it doesn't quite break the formal mold enough to distinguish itself from its tradition.
What makes this work is how Dantart uses negative space—the comedy comes not from what intrudes on Gonzalo, but from his reaction *to* being intruded upon, a single performance choice that transforms a thin premise into something unexpectedly tender.