“Antonio—the fat, bald, and short man of the title—is a functionary in a notary office in Bogota, Colombia, a middle-aged virgin whose life has become a pitiable routine. As alone as a character in an Edward Hopper painting, Antonio suffers the indifference of society and the abusive, macho humor of his co-workers, until the day a new executive director comes to run the office. Señor Enriquez is as short, fat, and bald as Antonio, but clearly unafraid to be a success. The presence of Enriquez challenges Antonio’s belief that he is destined to be a failure and presents him with the terrifying possibility of confronting his own fears and desires.
“Beautifully mixing rotoscope animation—used in Richard Linklater’s Waking Life and Through a Scanner Darkly—with other two and three-dimensional techniques, first-time director Carlos Osuna puts us inside Antonio’s sad and beautiful inner world to tell a moving universal story of one man’s struggle to be himself.” —Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
FAT, BALD, SHORT MAN / GORDO, CALVO Y BAJITO
A film by Carlos Osuna
(Colombia, 2011, 97 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Now streaming on Tubi
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