Pornobrujas
2012 · 20m · España
Directed by Juan Gautier
Genres: comedy
Tones: humorous
Andrea, Paula, Ivy and Ana have just played a small festival in the Levante area and decide to save on a hotel by spending the night at Paula's parents' nearby apartment.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A title like *Pornobrujas* promises transgression and gets something better—a comedy about four festival musicians crashing at a parent's apartment that treats its own audacity as a non-issue, letting the premise breathe into something genuinely weird without winking. Most scouts would run from this; that's exactly why it landed here.
Gautier's command of ensemble timing and spatial comedy situates itself squarely in a lineage of European indie comedies concerned with quotidian intimacy, though the film's tonal register—irreverent without cynicism—marks a distinct formal choice in how it manages its small-scale domestic stakes.
The film's entire architecture hinges on one decision: treating the title's provocation as utterly ordinary, letting the four performers play the night's actual friction rather than perform self-awareness about it, and that restraint is what makes the comedy land as something real.