Venga usted mañana
2016 · 10m · España
Directed by Ruth Villasana, Salvi Pérez
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
One morning in a bank, the manager shamelessly wastes his clients' time, until one of them, impatient in the queue, bursts out and proudly shows a lottery ticket that catches the manager's attention.
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A ten-minute comedy that takes the bureaucratic tedium everyone endures and flips it into a lottery-ticket standoff—the premise is absurd enough to work, and the fact that the manager's greed becomes the hinge point instead of the obvious target (incompetence) is exactly the kind of subversive twist that makes you recalibrate what you thought the film was about.
The film occupies an interesting lineage of Latin American social satire and absurdist comedy, though its execution feels more like a sketch than a fully considered formal statement—the premise is sharp, but the short doesn't seem aware enough of its own tonal register to claim real craft ambition.
The entire film pivots on the single choice to make the lottery ticket the object of desire rather than the punchline, and that reframing—how the camera and editing pivot to follow the manager's sudden hunger instead of mocking the system—is what makes this work on a budget of nothing but observation and timing.