VENENO PARA DESAYUNAR
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by CARLOS CARDOSO
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, satire
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, theatrical
Two school mums greet each other with great politeness while attacking each other with ever more ferocious barbs.
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A premise so aggressively stupid on the surface—two mums being *nice* while being absolutely vicious—that it becomes genuinely subversive; the kind of short that works precisely because it refuses to wink at you or apologize for its theatrical cruelty.
The formalism here is sharp: restraint punctuated by escalation, a tonal architecture that echoes Buñuel's absurdist manners-as-weapons approach, and Cardoso's three-minute discipline suggests a filmmaker attuned to how genre satire functions as social commentary.
The decision to keep both performers locked in that relentless politeness—smiling through the venom—is the entire film; that singular choice to never break the surface while the content underneath corrodes transforms what could've been a sketch into something that actually lands.