Quiero un Seat 600
2022 · 8m · España
Directed by David Adsuara, Olga Sanchís
Genres: crime, dark comedy, drama
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, tender
Wandering the streets at dawn, young Xavi spots a Seat 600 and tries to steal it, unaware that Tere, an elderly woman eating sunflower seeds on a bench, is watching him.
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Everyone expects the crime setup to go dark; instead these two strangers just... witness each other at dawn, and somehow that mutual recognition becomes the real heist. Subverts the theft narrative so quietly you almost miss it.
The formal restraint here—that static bench, the sunflower seeds, the economy of gesture—places it squarely in the European humanist tradition, though the tonal blend of dark comedy and tenderness resists easy categorization.
The entire film turns on one decision: letting the elderly woman's presence be felt before we understand it, so that when she doesn't stop him, her silence carries more weight than any dialogue could. That's the filmmaking choice that makes an eight-minute premise into something that stays with you.