Tu p*** banco
2015 · 13m · España
Directed by José Luis Santos
Genres: comedy, crime, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
Ramón has tickets to take his son to the Copa del Rey final between Atlético de Madrid and Real Madrid, but first he has an errand to run: he has to rob a bank.
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A Spanish dad commits armed robbery to make it to his kid's soccer match—the premise alone is the movie, and Santos just *runs* with it, refusing to wink at the absurdity or moralize it away. This is the kind of high-concept dark comedy that makes you uncomfortable laughing, which means it's working.
Santos demonstrates a controlled hand with tone, balancing the mundane desperation of Ramón against the surreal logistics of his errand; the film understands its debts to caper and social realism without surrendering to either tradition.
The masterstroke is treating the bank robbery with the same deadpan attention to detail—the same framing, the same pacing—as the relationship between father and son; that tonal equality is what transforms a premise into something that *feels* true.