Así es, así fue
2013 · 15m · España
Directed by Irene Rubio
Silvia tries to forget her ex through social media while writer Carlos Requena struggles to advance his novel, and the two meet online and decide to see each other in person.
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A meet-cute forged through social media scrolling and writer's block—it's a rom-com premise so earnest and digitally native it almost circles back to being subversive, except Rubio plays it straight enough that the irony dissolves into something almost sincere, which isn't quite enough.
Rubio grounds this post-internet romance in a formal gentleness that recalls the romantic cinema of correspondence and longing, updating the epistolary tradition for the age of notifications and unread messages—a film aware of what it's inheriting.
The film's real architecture lives in how Rubio lets the awkwardness of the transition from online to in-person unfold through silences and glances rather than exposition, turning a modest premise into something alive through performance and restraint.