Prkng
2008 · 10m · España
Directed by Jorge Molina
Genres: dark comedy, thriller
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
An executive races to arrive on time for a crucial company meeting, but after a string of mishaps he reaches a car park where fate seems determined to keep him trapped underground, and his stress and haste turn against him.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A corporate thriller that uses a parking garage as a purgatorial trap—absurdist, escalating, completely uninterested in whether you find the premise 'realistic'—and that's exactly why it works. This is the kind of premise that makes you go 'wait, WHAT?' and then doesn't blink.
Molina constructs a formally rigorous descent, each edit and mishap layered with the precision of a Kafkaesque morality play; the parking garage as architectural mise-en-scène recalls the European absurdist tradition, though the execution here feels more kinetic than contemplative.
The genius move is making the car park itself the antagonist—not through VFX or gimmickry, but through rhythm and framing that slowly collapses the space around the protagonist until claustrophobia becomes the plot. One formal choice sustains the entire tension.