Quiero ser como papá
2018 · 3m · España
Directed by Borja Antona Gómez
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Lucas watches a favourite Cruz y Raya sketch by Juan Munoz when a mother appears with a stranger in a very affectionate attitude. The stranger claims paternity.
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The setup promises rupture—a paternity bomb dropped mid-sketch—but the film seems content to *feel* the sting rather than detonate it; everyone else would call that restraint, I call it missed provocation.
A precisely calibrated moment of domestic disruption that recalls the Spanish coming-of-age lineage (Erice, Víctor Erice's formal quietude), where the cut between comedy and crisis becomes the film's architecture.
The choice to let the Juan Muñoz sketch keep playing—that audio persistence while Lucas's world fractures—is what does it; the non-choice of not cutting away becomes the whole emotional hinge.