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Salad Days

2001 · 20 min

A whimsical, absurd little fable that plays like a charming joke, light and silly but with a faint bittersweet edge.

Directed by
Gustavo Salmerón
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Candela Peña, Ernesto Alterio, Guillermo Toledo
Overview
A mixed salad and a trout meet on death row: The cold storage of a restaurant. They decide to unite in a single dish that will lead them to eternal love.

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Directed by
Gustavo Salmerón
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Candela Peña, Ernesto Alterio, Guillermo Toledo
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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • death
  • fate
  • identity
Places
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour7
Realism4
Romance5
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
Gustavo Salmerón
Starring
Candela Peña, Ernesto Alterio, Guillermo Toledo, Malena Alterio, Eduardo Antuña, Secun de la Rosa, Roberto Álamo, Eduardo Gómez
Runtime
20 min
Country
Spain
Languages
Spanish

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