DVD
2006 · 17m
Directed by Ciro Altabás
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, romance
The adventure of Yoel, a film and video-game fanatic, to prove to his ex-girlfriend that he has matured — unlike his older brother Roberto, a serious, formal, sensible fellow who must learn to be a geek to conquer the girl of his dreams.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise wants to be a role-reversal romp, but it settles into exactly the beats you'd expect—geek learns to be cool, cool guy learns to be geek, everyone meets in the middle. It's competent, never subversive.
A lean coming-of-age comedy that understands its own lineage in the romantic entanglement tradition, though it doesn't add formal rigor or visual argument to justify its place in that conversation.
The film's real nerve is in how it splits focus between two brothers instead of centering one protagonist—that structural choice, letting both transformations breathe equally, is what keeps this from collapsing into formula despite working with familiar material.