Teletubbies
2018 · 7m · España
Directed by William Jarillo
Tones: darkly comic, tense
Jorge meets his friend Peter to watch a football match, but the get-together is really a cover to demand back the money Peter has owed him for three months.
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The bait-and-switch setup is safe enough—friends, football, hidden agenda—but Jarillo never commits to subverting it in any way that sticks; it's competent tension without the weird edge that would make it actually memorable.
A cleanly constructed chamber piece that understands the grammar of social discomfort; the restraint in revealing Peter's evasion mirrors formal precision in editing that keeps the screws turning without melodrama.
The entire film turns on Jarillo's choice to keep the camera locked on the television screen during the crucial money conversation—a single formal decision that transforms small-talk tension into something genuinely claustrophobic and tells you everything about Jorge's desperation without a close-up.