Edifício Tatuapé Mahal

A man discusses his career, and the moment where the discovery of his cheating wife caused him to leave home and seek a way to restore his manhood. In this case though, the character is a scale-model figurine, who works in architect's models of proposed developments.

The tone of the film is what makes this scenario work very well. It dryly plays out its world in a way that is fully accepting of how it works – it is not played 'big' at any point, and within its own logic all of it works. There is a lot of pleasure in seeing the animated figures within this world, and it is consistently amusing even if there are no 'big' laughs. The Spanish narration is well delivered throughout, and it is this that sets the tone with the dialogue and the delivery. The animation is excellent as it mixes these crude models with good stop-motion work and clever visual gags. I wish it had managed to deliver the ending in a sharper way, but even with this I still really enjoyed it for its enjoyably odd creation.