Un Domingo Cualquiera
2017 · 18m
Directed by Sergi Miralles
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, tense
The discovery of a pregnancy-test box shatters a quiet family lunch, and Ricardo, the father, interrogates each relative to learn whom the test belongs to. Accusations against Carol, Laura and Nacho give way to a catharsis that exposes lies and brings out what truly matters in the family.
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Everyone expects a pregnancy-test premise to blow up into melodrama, but Miralles keeps the actual revelation almost beside the point—he's interested in how bourgeois families weaponize interrogation and vulnerability in equal measure, which is genuinely twisted in a way most indie dramedies wouldn't dare.
The film's architectural precision—the way it uses the lunch-table geometry and interrogation structure to move through layers of family mythology toward genuine emotional exposure—places it squarely in the lineage of Haneke and early Koreeda, with the formal control to match.
What transforms this from a gimmicky premise into something real is the decision to play the catharsis not as cathartic release but as an almost reluctant acknowledgment, letting the actors find truth in the spaces between accusations rather than in the big emotional beats.