Review Tuesday: The Coffee Table (Original title: La mesita del comedor) 2022

  

 

The Coffee Table

(Original title: La mesita del comedor)

2022 

A man regrets buying a coffee table.

From no where my BFF brought this movie up to watch. A dark comedy? Okay...

 

Jesus (David Pareja) is stubbornly set on the thought to buy a coffee table that his bitch-wife Maria (Estafania de los Santos) hates. Since their entire marriage has been doing everything her way, Jesus wants this ONE THING. He brings the table home and begins assembly, only to discover that a part is missing. He puts the job aside while his wife goes to the grocery and he babysits their newly-born son. And then he accidentally kills the baby with the coffee table. 

 

That's like, the first 15 minutes or so. The rest of the movie is Jesus trying to comprehend what happened and deal with the trauma. 

 

To be honest, I didn't like this movie. The characters are all awful and the story is horrific. Plus it's in Spanish and it was hard trying to follow what's going on while reading the subtitles. It wasn't my thing.