Me Gustas
2015 · 11m · España
Directed by Roberto Cano
A boy in love overcomes his rejection of social networks to connect with the girl he is attracted to, in a tale about social media and love.
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A boy-meets-girl through Instagram—it's the kind of premise that should be insufferable, but Cano's actually mining something genuinely weird about desire and digital shame; the real subversion isn't the social media angle, it's how tenderly he treats the humiliation of it all.
Cano situates himself squarely in the post-digital romance lineage, treating the smartphone as a contemporary stand-in for the letter or the phone call; the film's formal restraint—its refusal to overcomplicate the digital interface—places it in conversation with a tradition of mediated courtship narratives.
What makes this work isn't the premise but the choice to play the social media notifications as genuine emotional beats—each like, each follow becomes a small gesture of intimacy rather than a joke about connectivity; that decision elevates an eleven-minute rom-com into something that actually feels like how people fall in love now.