Crimen ferpecto (2004, Spanish)

Crimen ferpecto is a somewhat entertaining black farce, notable primarily for the charisma of leading man Guillermo Toledo. Toledo plays Rafael, a caddish salesman at a major department store in Madrid. When his ambition to become the store's floor manager is ruined, Rafael (somewhat) accidentally commits murder, and finds himself linked to the most unlikely of accomplices, a homely shopgirl who turns out to have quite the nasty streak.

Neither gender really scores points in Crimen ferpecto - it's a pretty ugly film, with no characters to root for and a sensibility that gets continually loopier and darker as the plot moves along. There is potential in the story, but the execution is too loose and the emphasis on easy laughs gives the film an inconsequential feel. Rafael's materialism and his desire to live an "elegant" life end up going nowhere important once the battle of the sexes takes off, squandering the perfect location - the modern Western department store - for social satire.