Super Hero
2015 · 3m · España
Directed by Alexandra Piñeiro Tew, Elvira García Sanz
Genres: dark comedy, romance, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, surreal
A couple is at a romantic dinner when something unexpected happens; with surreal touches, it is discovered that the man does not know how to fly.
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The bait-and-switch is perfect—you think you're walking into romantic dinner territory, then the film yanks the rug out by revealing the man's fundamental inability to do the one thing superheroes are supposed to do. It's a subversive gut-punch dressed as surrealism, and everyone else would've played it straight.
The formal restraint here is admirable: three minutes of intimate mise-en-scène that gradually destabilizes into the absurd, maintaining compositional control throughout—a tidy riff on the surrealist tradition that knows exactly when to undercut its own emotional register.
The decision to keep the couple in close, mundane domestic space while the surreal revelation unfolds creates all the tension—it's not the flying itself that matters, but how the film traps us in the couple's stunned stillness as the impossible becomes ordinary.