El amor no es ciego
2015 · 10m · España
Directed by Raquel González Cimas
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, romance
Eight-year-old Jaime, who is deaf, is in love with Rebeca, a hearing girl who knows sign language; Rebeca is in love with Pablo, a thirty-year-old waiter who knows no sign language but is in love with the world.
Picked by Zoe
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The premise wants to be a cute love-triangle quirk-fest, but González Cimas actually refuses to punch down at any of these characters—including the oblivious waiter—which is the opposite of subversive and honestly kind of boring.
A formally assured piece that sits comfortably in the European coming-of-age tradition, with clean framing and restraint, though it doesn't push against the form in ways that linger.
The entire film pivots on a single narrative withholding—that Jaime doesn't know Pablo exists in his world, that he's in love with someone who's only looking elsewhere—and González Cimas threads this asymmetry through every frame without a wasted gesture, letting the silence and sight-lines do the heavy lifting.