International trailer for Fat, Bald, Short Man.
In this hybrid of animation and live action – which recalls the traced-image approach of Richard Linklater’s “Waking Life” – lonesome middle-aged virgin Antonio Farfán is picked on and ridiculed as a matter of course by co-workers and his bullying mooch of a brother. His status improves a bit when his new boss – and strangely affable doppelganger – takes an interest in him, but Farfán’s deep-seated shyness and insecurity are only partly assuaged. When he joins a self-improvement group, Farfán slowly confirms what the undulating lines of the film’s rotoscoped images suggest: Everything is in motion, and change is inevitable.