Visión de futuro
2016 · 15m · España
Directed by Borja Echeverría
Genres: comedy, historical, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
Madrid, 1960. Reading in a magazine that 'in ten years cars will fly', Carlos, a screenwriter of Francoist propaganda films, decides to spend three years researching in order to make the first science-fiction film in the history of Spanish cinema.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A propaganda screenwriter chasing flying cars in Franco's Spain should be a mess of contradictions, and it mostly is—but the film's too enamored with its own whimsy to really *lean* into the absurdity, settling for cute instead of corrosive.
Echeverría locates this comedy in a precise lineage of metacinematic satire, using the constraint of 1960s Spanish film culture as both formal boundary and thematic mirror—the editing breathes with the careful measure of someone who understands how to weaponize period detail.
The film lives in that single choice to play the protagonist's delusion *straight*—no winking at the audience about the absurdity of making sci-fi under fascism—and that commitment to earnest impossibility is what transforms a thin premise into something that actually *lands*.