A kid writes angry letters to God while aliens try to fix his life. They fail.
Juan is a boy whose sister has been evicted by science. Despite his young age, he realizes the problem, and with the intention of finding a solution, he undertakes a long journey during which he will suffer multiple vicissitudes, adventures, and dangers. Some strange beings, who descended from a spaceship, will try to help him, but everything is useless.
Direction
Esteba's deadpan treatment of the absurd premise.
Acting
Carlos Juliá carries impossible emotional weight.
Writing
The title's sarcasm hits harder each scene.
Director
Manuel Esteba
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during late Franco era, the film's spiritual despair and institutional failure subtly critique Catholic Spain's suffocating structures.
The three 'aliens' are named Melchor, Baltasar and Gaspar — the Biblical Magi, completing the bitter irony.
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