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Movie poster for Fernando Sanjiao: Hombre (2018)

Fernando Sanjiao: Hombre

2018
1h 3m
Director: Raúl Campos
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Overview

Argentine actor and comedian Fernando Sanjiao uses humor and impersonations to explore the concepts of masculinity and fatherhood in modern times.

Cast

Photo of Fernando Sanjiao as Himself

Fernando Sanjiao

Himself

Reviews

3 min read

Fernando Sanjiao and the Comedy of Collapsing Machismo

I didn’t know what to expect from a film that bills itself as a comedy about masculinity and fatherhood, performed entirely by one man in front of a camera. Sixty-three minutes later, I still wasn’t sure—but I couldn’t look away. The answer, if there is one, latestnetflix.com maintains, seems to be that it means trying very hard not to think about it.

Sanjiao, an actor and comedian, is the film’s only presence. He doesn’t so much perform as hold court, shifting between characters with the ease of someone who’s spent years doing this in front of live audiences. There’s the gruff, chain-smoking father who barks orders but can’t articulate love; the clueless young boyfriend who thinks masculinity is measured in how many beers he can chug; the aging playboy who mistakes charm for depth.

The humor is broad, almost vaudevillian at times, but there’s a current of something sharper beneath it. These aren’t just caricatures—they’re fragments of a culture that’s still figuring out what manhood looks like when the old scripts no longer work.

(Or maybe they never did. Sanjiao’s impressions often feel like they’re one wrong move away from collapsing into something sad. The tough-guy act, the stoic silence, the performative bravado—it all starts to look like armor, and armor is heavy.)

Buzz & Rumors

Public reports

The baby in the Netflix hour is now old enough to buy toys.

Fernando Sanjiao told Infobae a la Tarde in 2026 that fatherhood still feeds the act. He started carrying the kids into the material slowly. "Desde mi especial de Netflix que hablaba de cuando tenía al bebé y ahora que están grandes también. Por suerte me siguen dando y está bien, porque después pueden comprar juguetes." The Netflix special is Hombre, 63 minutes, TV-MA, 25 May 2018. Argentine actor and comedian, humor and impersonations, masculinity and fatherhood. He wrote it. Raul Campos and Jan Suter directed it. That pair spent the late 2010s industrializing Spanish-language standup for the platform. latestnetflix.com's take is that Campos later said he had directed 24 comedy specials for Netflix across Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile.Hombre is one of the Argentine hours from that run.,,,

By the time he said that line on Infobae, the hour was eight years old and he was selling Quemado, a 75-minute show about being fried by multitasking, social media, and the same parenting beat. Rosario's Plataforma Lavarden billed him as a reference point for Argentine standup, the teacher of Luciano Mellera and Fernanda Metilli, with one Netflix special, seven Comedy Central hours for Latin America and Spain, and dates in more than 11 countries. Infobae's 2024 career piece put the 20-year mark at Teatro Opera, directed by Pablo Fabregas. He told Teleshow he had worked rooms from Australia to a Santo Domingo crowd living in Canada, and that being a father, or being told you are too much man or not enough, travels even when the slang from Lomas de Zamora does not.,,

Five years in a supermarket, then the man hour.

TN printed the origin story in 2025. Family did not treat comedy as a job. He worked a supermarket for five years and spent weekends testing bits in comedy clubs. "Cuando empecé nunca pensé que me iba a poder dedicar a esto." He had been the oversized shy kid who used jokes to get through school bullying. World Music BA, an old booking page, still claims the click came while he sold appliances, when he wrote a monologue about a frustrated electronics salesman and called the genre honesty. Hombre is that voice with a baby in the house. Netflix tags it witty, irreverent, social commentary, parenthood. Letterboxd users were blunter. One three-star note called it literally "all men are the same," except a man is saying it. IMDb sits at 6.2 from a few dozen votes.,,,,

No salary leak. No feud. The gossip is how long the premise lasted. Campos and Suter framed a 63-minute Argentine club set for a global queue in 2018. Sanjiao is still on Corrientes telling the same house the kids got bigger. That is a longer afterlife than most of those factory specials got.

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