Y comieron perdices
2019 · 11m · España
Directed by David Montero
Genres: comedy, fantasy, romance
Tones: darkly comic, theatrical, whimsical
Alberto, a young knight at heart, tries to win back the love of his princess Laura, facing the greatest difficulties a medieval knight could face, with mentors who help him and witches who try to finish him.
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The scouts
A knight-romance-with-witches that could've been straight Disney dreck becomes genuinely disorienting — the tonal whiplash between theatrical earnestness and dark comic sabotage is exactly the kind of "wait, are they doing this unironically?" energy that makes consensus scouts nervous and me obsessed.
Montero orchestrates the fairy tale register with formal precision, layering medieval romance tropes against contemporary comedic puncture; the film knows its lineage to Spanish theatrical tradition and subverts it with measured restraint rather than chaos.
The entire film pivots on a single recurring sound choice — those witch interventions cutting the score at the exact moment Alberto's earnestness peaks — that transforms what could be broad satire into something genuinely strange and economical.