Unas gafas
2020 · 7m
Directed by Marcos Callejo
Tones: contemplative, whimsical
Bored in quarantine, a girl receives an anonymous package containing sunglasses and wonders what use they can have during her confinement.
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A girl gets mystery sunglasses in lockdown and… nothing happens, which is exactly the subversive move everyone's too afraid to make—the film's real joke is that we're all waiting for the twist that refuses to arrive.
Callejo's restraint feels indebted to a lineage of European comic-contemplative shorts that trust negative space; the formal patience with mundane quarantine ennui recalls a Koreeda sensibility applied to pandemic tedium.
The entire film hinges on one choice: treating the sunglasses as genuinely useless rather than a plot device, which reframes the whole premise from mystery-box to portrait of creative desperation—that single tonal commitment transforms a premise into something real.