Por las nubes
2023 · 35m · España
Directed by Fernando Colomo
Genres: comedy, mystery, satire
Tones: absurdist, humorous, whimsical
In Málaga, a woman hires the services of some peculiar private detectives. She suspects her husband is cheating on her, not with another woman, but with succulent chocolate palm trees and delicious sandwiches bathed in alioli, which are causing his cholesterol to keep rising.
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A man's infidelity mystery that pivots entirely on *food* as the rival—this is the kind of premise that makes you genuinely unsure whether to laugh or squint, and that disorientation is exactly the point. Colomo's refusal to play it straight, treating cholesterol and alioli with the gravitas of a noir affair, is gloriously perverse.
The film's formal restraint—maintaining the detective-story scaffolding while systematically replacing emotional stakes with gastronomic ones—shows a director working deliberately within genre constraints to achieve satirical precision. It's a small, calculated subversion of the marital-suspicion archetype.
The masterstroke here is treating the husband's *absence* and the food as equal dramatic weight; most filmmakers would punch up the comedy or wink at the camera, but Colomo's choice to play it with mystery-film sincerity—letting the alioli carry real dramatic tension—is what makes the absurdity actually land.