El amor en los tiempos del Tinder
2020 · 6m · España
Directed by David Pardo Rodríguez
A man and a woman meet through Tinder; he has everything planned, but she feels deceived and treats it as just a date. He must fall back on old-fashioned seduction, especially his gift of gab.
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A Tinder rom-com premise that could've been a wedding invitation—but Pardo leans into the performance anxiety and verbal sparring hard enough that it almost transcends the obvious setup; still, it's the least contrarian move a contrarian could make.
Competent romantic comedy staging with clean dialogue work and a clear three-act structure, though it sits comfortably within the contemporary rom-com tradition rather than interrogating or extending it in any formal way.
The pivot from curated-date disaster to improvised seduction lives or dies on the lead's ability to hold a monologue under real pressure, and Pardo's decision to let the camera stay close and patient while his protagonist talks his way back in—that's the whole film, and it *works*.