#Piñacolada
2016 · 7m · España
Directed by Belén Riquelme
Genres: dark comedy, romance, satire
Tones: darkly comic, melancholic, surreal
Piña and Coco were a wildly modern couple whose wonderful, cool life was portrayed on an Instagram with thousands of followers, until one day he disappears, French-style. From then on, returning to the place of their first date can become a vintage nightmare.
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The scouts
A Instagram-babe romance that evaporates into a surreal temporal nightmare—it's a premise that could've been Millennial Sadness Bingo, except Riquelme actually pulls the rug out and makes the form itself part of the joke, which is exactly the kind of subversive move that makes people uncomfortable in the best way.
Riquelme situates this squarely in the lineage of post-digital cinema that interrogates hyperconnectivity and presence, with a formal rigor in how the film's editing mirrors the fractured psychology of return—the vintage nightmare that unfolds is not mere stylistic flourish but a structural commitment to temporal collapse.
The decision to trap both character and audience in a looping, degraded version of the first-date location—treating memory itself as a medium that glitches and distorts—is the single formal choice that transforms what could've been snappy social-media satire into something genuinely haunting and specific.