Pizza Time!
2024 · 3m
Directed by Alberto Cruzado
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
An obsessive customer orders a pizza to be delivered to his home, but when it arrives it fails to meet his idea of perfection.
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A three-minute escalation that treats pizza perfectionism like a descent into philosophical madness—it's absurdist enough to feel genuinely unsettling rather than just quirky, and Cruzado doesn't blink or wink, which is exactly why it works.
Economical in structure and clearly descended from the tradition of precision-based comedy (Tati, Koreeda's comic touch), though the darkening impulse occasionally overwhelms the formal rigor that would elevate it beyond a one-note conceptual sketch.
The entire film hinges on Cruzado's refusal to let the camera leave the customer's face during the reveal—that commitment to watching obsession curdle in real time is what transforms a simple premise into something genuinely disquieting on almost no budget.