In the director’s words, “ El club del paro cuts out the sentimentality that drags down a lot of comedies, focusing instead on the only thing that should concern us: laughter. Yes, it is difficult to distance ourselves from tragedies like evictions, corruption, unemployment, the erosion of workers’ rights and the financial crisis, but it is important to approach all of these issues with a good dose of caustic humour — just like the man on the street or at the local bar, because after a couple of beers, everything starts to look different. As Monty Python teaches us at the end of