Nico tiene una novia
2013 · 11m · México
Directed by Daniel C. Zorrilla
Tones: absurdist, humorous, whimsical
Tired of his family's pressure to find a girlfriend, Nicolás takes his toaster as his date to his cousin's wedding and discovers that love, humour and electric shocks can arrive in unexpected forms.
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The toaster-as-date premise is exactly the kind of absurdist move that makes you groan and then instantly want to see it—it refuses the expected arc of 'lonely guy learns a lesson' and instead commits fully to the bit, letting the joke become something genuinely strange and oddly moving.
A playful riff on the meet-cute and romantic comedy tradition that understands the genre well enough to subvert it with precision; the craft lies in maintaining tonal coherence between whimsy and emotional sincerity across eleven economical minutes.
The genius here is the decision to make the toaster a legitimate love interest rather than just a punchline—that commitment to the bit, where the film treats an appliance with the same earnest romantic attention as a human character, is what transforms a high-concept gag into something that actually lands.