En la próxima parada
2011 · 19m · España
Directed by Luis Francisco Pérez
Javi longs for a girlfriend without finding the right girl, until he finds a lost diary whose owner might be the woman he has been searching for.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A diary-as-meet-cute is exactly the kind of rom-com scaffolding everyone expects, and Pérez seems content to live inside that box—which means I'm out.
There's a deliberate lightness to the whimsy here that recalls the Spanish indie tradition of tender comedy; the formal restraint keeps sentimentality at arm's length, even if the premise itself is fairly familiar.
The entire film hinges on how Pérez commits to the diary itself as an object—the texture of its pages, the weight of discovery—and that tactile specificity transforms what could be precious into something genuinely affecting on a tight budget.