Mi amigo invisible
2010 · 15m · España
Directed by Pablo Larcuen
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, family
Tomás is so shy he cannot even ask his mother to pass the salt, until Andy, an invisible friend determined to cure his shyness, appears in his life.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a perfectly competent invisible-friend-fixes-shy-kid story—exactly the kind of consensus-friendly premise that makes Felix's skin crawl; there's nothing here that resists the algorithm or makes you question why this story needed to be told at all.
Larcuen situates this neatly within the established lineage of magical-realism comedie—think del Toro's gentler moments—and the whimsy is executed with measured restraint, though it doesn't quite break new formal ground in how it deploys the invisible conceit.
What lifts this beyond greeting-card territory is the sound design of Andy's presence—the specific acoustic signature of an absence, how the film lets silence and muffled dialogue do the work of invisibility rather than visual gimmickry, which transforms a familiar premise into something tactile and strange.