El fantástico caso del Golem (2023) Poster

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Golem!
BandSAboutMovies30 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
After a drunken game of charades, Juan (Brays Efe) witnesses his best friend David fall to the street below and explode into a million pieces in the ultimate dummy drop. Confused and consumed with sadness, he is about to go deep into the world of clay companions and the algorithm that determines how everyone will die.

Yes, Juan's friend was a golem.

How can you not love a movie inspired by the scene where the German soldier is actually a porcelain doll in Top Secret!?

Directed and written by Juan González and Nando Martínez -- also known as Burnin Percebes -- this movie finds Juan in the middle of a conspiracy, tracked by a cop (Javier Botet); meeting Maria Pons ((Anna Castillo), a woman who has also seen men explode into bits and pieces; dealing with David's lover Filtro Valencia (Nao Albet) and wondering why his father (Luis Tosar) doesn't want to ever discuss the death of the golem.

Maybe working with his dad's assistant Clara (Bruna Cusí), he will learn the truth.

Whatever it ends up, it's going to be strange.
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7/10
Ribald and Absurd, and Very Funny
alisonc-124 July 2023
Juan (Brays Efe) is a typical 30-something guy in Madrid - unemployed, spending his days and nights hanging out with his best buddy David (David Menendez). One night they are playing charades on the roof of Juan's apartment building when David, over-enthusiastic about his miming, falls off the roof - and shatters into a million ceramic pieces when he lands on the roof of a car. Thus begins Juan's journey to discover where the golems came from and, more important, who they are - and a corporate conspiracy is only the beginning!

Fans of the absurd will enjoy this comic venture; it is ribald, full of sexual jokes and situations so not for children, but the film is replete with bizarre incidents that, well, you have to see to believe. Don't try too hard to figure out the logic of this universe, just go along for the ride and have a good laugh!
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