He (Walter Alonso) doesn't want to spend Christmas alone, so he tries to find the perfect girl to keep him company over the holidays. Thing is, his demands regarding the perfect companiion are pretty high, so much so that eventually becomes apparent that there's no one woman who can fulfill all of his expectations - so why not piece her together out of different girls? Of course, this leads to quite a bit of a panic, especially when some of the severed bodyparts he has discarded turn up all over town. And yet, pretty Claudia (Penélope Bogado), like him a single looking for a holiday companion, meets for a blind date with our hero, and of course he before long falls in love with her mind and decides on beheading her - but he's in for a nasty surprise ...

Now this is a fun one for sure, especially since it's built up like an in the best sense of the world old-fashioned short story that drrives the narrative to a point where one can almost anticipate the ending only then instead come up with a surprise plot twist that despite being perfectly macabre in nature doesn't fail to make one chuckle. And Marcelo Fabani*s direction that goes for a very factual, almost documentarian beginning to a very intimate third act perfectly captures the story's mood while the small cast keep things wonderfully relatable, making this a fun genre piece.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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