Mi Primera Cita
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Bennet Klinger, Aimar Vega
Ramón, a scatterbrained man who is always late and writes everything down, goes on a date with Lola, a much more formal woman who will soon read him the riot act — a modern date between two analogue people.
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Two analogue people on a date in 2025 should be a tired premise, but the film's real subversion is so quiet you almost miss it—treating scatterbrained chaos and rigidity as equally valid ways of moving through the world, neither one winning, which is genuinely radical for a rom-com.
The formal restraint here echoes a lineage of European comedies of manners, where character is revealed through behavioral texture rather than exposition; the editing rhythm between Ramón's scattered energy and Lola's precision feels deliberate and earned.
The entire film pivots on a single sound design choice—the ambient texture of pen-on-paper, which transforms Ramón's note-taking from a quirk into a form of presence—and that one decision makes the whole domestic awkwardness land with real tenderness.