Review of 7:35 de la mañana

10 years ago, "7:35 de la mañana" was the first directorial effort from Nacho Vigalondo. He also wrote it and plays a small part. Reception was pretty well as he scored an Oscar nomination in the live action short category, but lost to Andrea Arnold's "Wasp". I am usually a sucker for musicals and black&white movies and you don't find these genres too often in short films, especially the musical factor, so this one surely got me curious. The final result was very underwhelming though. The reference about crushing on somebody, but being too shy to talk to them was a good one, but the rest of the film comes rather short. The scenes where nobody was talking to the woman at first were as uninteresting as the musical number that followed shortly afterward was kitschy. Despite the accolades, it looked to me that Vigalondo was still trying to find his style here. Not recommended unfortunately as this one had a couple really interesting ingredients as mentioned before, but the final meal wasn't particularly delicious.