Ni te cases ni te embarques - A reason to leave you

2018 · 9m · España

Directed by Leixandre Froufe

Genres: drama, romance

Tones: contemplative, tender

Ana and Alex have been together for some time; very different from each other, Ana wants to take a step forward to consolidate the relationship but fears things will not go as she plans.

Picked by Zoe

The scouts

A relationship drama about a woman afraid things won't go according to plan—it's the setup every rom-com has run into the ground, and Froufe doesn't seem interested in subverting it, just dwelling in it. Pass.

Felix

The film sits comfortably in a lineage of intimate European relationship studies, with a measured approach to ambivalence and tender precision in its framing of domestic uncertainty—formally sound, if somewhat familiar in its restraint.

Margot

The genius here is how Froufe lets Ana's anxiety live entirely in her face and pauses; there's a specific moment where the camera holds on her uncertainty just long enough that you stop watching a plot about commitment and start watching a portrait of someone wrestling with her own doubt. That choice does all the heavy lifting.

Zoe