Pero le queremos un montón
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Antonio Galicia
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
After Dan, a young Madrid would-be actor and singer, leaves a bar terrace, his friends start talking about him behind his back, and the conversation evolves into a character description as cruel as it is deserved.
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Everyone expects the betrayal scene to hurt—but Galicia flips it: the real cruelty isn't malice, it's accuracy, which somehow lands darker than a knife in the back.
A cleanly observed study in the Spanish social comedy tradition, where character demolition becomes a formal exercise in restraint and the unsaid; the terrace conversation recalls a lineage of films about performative cruelty among friends.
The entire film hinges on one structural choice—letting the friends' honesty breathe without editorializing—and that decision transforms what could be mean-spirited into something uncomfortably true and worth sitting with.