Un monstruo de 7 pollas
2016 · 4m · España
Directed by Laura Artolachipi
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A young manga fan goes on a date with someone very different from herself. The encounter takes an unusual turn shaped by how repression affects people's desires.
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The scouts
A manga-obsessed woman on a date becomes a vessel for all the weird, repressed desire her boring date can't articulate—it's absurdist body horror masquerading as romantic comedy, and the fact that it works is exactly why consensus taste will miss it.
Artolachipi deploys surrealism with precision, anchoring her formal experimentation in the lineage of 90s transgressive cinema while maintaining rigorous control over tone and pacing; the film's architectural shift from social realism into nightmare registers as genuinely considered rather than merely provocative.
The single choice to literalize desire through grotesque transformation—holding that tension between deadpan dating awkwardness and full body-horror commitment—does everything on a 4-minute, presumably modest budget that a bigger film wastes trying to explain.