Disney
2015 · 16m · España
Directed by Jorge Saavedra
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
Jorge rehearses in front of the mirror the speech he plans to use to leave his girlfriend of four years, but when he arrives at her house she has something important to tell him.
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The premise reads like a greeting-card inversion—guy rehearses breakup, girl has news—but it never commits to the subversion; instead it settles into exactly the twee emotional symmetry everyone saw coming.
A cleanly structured chamber piece that understands the rhythms of romantic comedic timing and mirror-scene mise-en-scène, though it operates firmly within established indie-drama conventions rather than interrogating them.
The decision to play the entire rehearsal sequence straight-faced while Jorge's internal performance grows more frantic creates an elegant visual argument about the gap between intention and arrival—a small formal choice that makes the whole film breathe.