The Last Moments of Leopoldo Berenguer

The scouts

A dictator's last moments disguised as a heart attack—the revolution and the coronary indistinguishable—is the kind of premise that makes you laugh because you're not supposed to, and that's exactly the subversive alchemy most scouts miss.

Dezcallar's formal restraint in treating domestic political collapse and bodily failure as interchangeable crises situates itself squarely in a lineage of European absurdist cinema, with the kind of compositional control that rewards close viewing.

The script's brilliance lives in a single choice: playing the announcement of revolution and heart attack with identical gravity, letting the audience catch up to the joke themselves rather than underlining it—that economy of direction is what separates student work from something that lands.