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2018 · 14m · Argentina
Directed by Hernán Alvarado Martínez
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
Mother and daughter enter the gardens of houses without permission, to correct the bad taste of their owners; this time, the mother decides to cross the line and gets into a house in a private neighbourhood.
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A mother-daughter trespassing duo who *improve* strangers' gardens is already absurd enough, but Alvarado pushes past twee into genuine transgression—the moment she crosses into the house, the film stops asking permission from the audience too, and that's exactly the kind of subversive turn that makes consensus taste squirm.
The film's formal constraint—building a three-act structure around escalating domestic invasion—echoes a lineage of European provocation cinema (Haneke, Kechiche) while maintaining its own tonal discipline; the dark comedy never undercuts the genuine moral friction at its core.
The crucial choice here is the sound design in that threshold moment when she enters the house—the abrupt shift from exterior birdsong to interior stillness is so economical it becomes the entire film's hinge, transforming a premise that could've been cutesy into something genuinely unsettling on a micro-budget.