Spoilers don’t break when they fall.

I have a guilty pleasure whenever I review a Spanish-speaking film in Fantasia. I can catch more of the subtleties of the language as a Spanish speaker. That being said, this is going to be one very fine example of absurdist comedy. It’s not going to make 100% percent sense taken at face value, but it will make you laugh if you follow its crooked logic. Humour can be universal, specially when it abandons conventional logic to make up its own.

El fantástico caso del Golem/The Fantastic Golem Affairs (2023) is written and directed by Juan González y Nando Martínez. Slacker Juan (Brays Efe) watches his best friend David (David Menéndez) fall off a building to break in a million of pieces as if he was made out of porcelain. This sends Juan in a journey to discover he’s not the only one that had a golem as his best friend, uncover a conspiracy that involves his own family and hopefully find out who’s dropping pianos on people.

Don’t expect all those questions to have a logic explanation. Or rather, expect to go deep into a world with a twisted logic but a clear sense of humour. The more the movie leans into its weirdness, the more familiar and funny it becomes to the audience. There’s subtle little details in the background that provide both continuity and hilarity to the scene you can probably pick up in repeated viewings.

Highly recommended for audiences with an open sense of humour. Specially if you have found mainstream comedy a little stale and cringy, you’ll love it. I think even casual audiences as it is very approachable as an absurdist comedy. Worth more than a single watch.

That will do for now.