DESPEGADO
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Marieta Tevar
Tones: contemplative, tender
After a few weeks of dating, a couple goes on their first trip away together.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A first-trip-away rom-com sounds like the safest premise imaginable, but Tevar seems to be doing something deliberate with the tenderness here—I just need to see whether she's subverting the couple's-vacation formula or just executing it very, very quietly.
Three minutes is a disciplined canvas for the romance genre; what matters is whether Tevar's editing and framing acknowledge the lineage of intimate couple films while finding her own formal argument within it.
The real pick here lives in whatever single moment—a glance, a pause in dialogue, a sound design choice—that makes you believe these two actually know each other after just weeks; that's where the film either collapses or transcends its modest premise.