Por un puñado de frases
2025 · 28m · España
Directed by Alejandro Millan
Genres: dark comedy, satire, western
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
A duel in the far West that hides something much bigger: Jorge Sanz, playing himself, is kidnapped by two stunt performers tired of being invisible on set. What looks like the start of a classic western becomes a black, meta-cinematic comedy and a homage to Hollywood's most iconic genre.
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The scouts
Finally—a western that knows the genre is dead and decides to kill it twice, once with a gun and once with a camera. Kidnapping the actor playing himself to expose the violence behind the myth? That's the kind of premise that makes gatekeepers nervous, and it should.
Millan positions himself squarely in the tradition of meta-cinematic critique that runs from Godard through to contemporary essay films, using the western's formal codes as scaffolding for deconstruction—a legitimate genealogy, though the satire risks collapsing into its own target.
The decision to cast Sanz as himself rather than hide behind a character creates this impossible friction where every moment of stunt-work peril becomes commentary, and that single casting choice transforms what could've been clever into something genuinely unsettling.