Ni tele ni pizza
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Fernando Tatao
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, humorous, tender
After a night of partying, Paula and Lucía hold their deepest conversation in their student flat's bathroom, reflecting on men, open relationships, lousy birthday presents and the divine and the human.
Picked by Zoe
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Everyone expects bathroom talks to resolve something, but Tatao just lets Paula and Lucía spiral through theology and birthday disappointment without payoff—which is exactly why it works as subversion of the intimacy-revelation formula.
The film sits comfortably in a lineage of European coming-of-age shorts that privilege dialogue and spatial constraint, though its tonal balance between the comedic and contemplative feels assured rather than particularly formal or revisionist.
The entire film hinges on the decision to keep the camera steady and patient while two voices ricochet between the sacred and the mundane—it's the restraint in the frame that makes the conversation feel overheard rather than performed.