Tiro Dominical
2020 · 15m · España
Directed by Pablo Riesgo
Genres: crime, dark comedy, thriller
Tones: dark, darkly comic, tense
In 1974, three friends land in the United States on their way to Las Vegas. They pick up a hitchhiker on the road, and things get very complicated.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A road-crime setup that *should* be boilerplate becomes something genuinely unsettling the moment that hitchhiker enters the frame—Riesgo refuses to let you predict which direction the power dynamic will snap, and the film's willingness to betray genre expectation is exactly why it works.
Riesgo's command of tone—the way dark comedy and genuine menace occupy the same breathing space without canceling each other out—places this squarely in the lineage of Tarantino's early work and the Coen Brothers' moral ambiguity, executed with restraint and formal precision.
The entire film pivots on a single casting choice and the performer's ability to hold ambiguity in their eyes; that decision to make the hitchhiker neither sympathetic nor monstrous transforms a fifteen-minute sketch into something that lands with real weight.