Pues ESO (Pipas 2)
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Virgilio Cuenca Romero
Genres: comedy
Tones: humorous
Two friends humorously discuss going back to study at an adult education centre.
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Two guys talking about night school sounds like the setup to a hundred forgettable shorts, except Cuenca actually mines real awkwardness from the mundane—there's something subversive about refusing to make the premise bigger than it is.
A cleanly observed two-hander in the tradition of conversational comedy, though the film trusts its restraint in ways that feel more like sketch than cinema—it knows what it is, which is worth something.
The entire film hangs on the rhythm of the back-and-forth and a single moment where the tone shifts just enough to make you believe these two actually *feel* something about their choices; that timing is what separates this from a YouTube skit.