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2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Giuppi Rattá Gutiérrez
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, whimsical
A woman allergic to romantic love, who doesn't believe in Prince Charmings or happily-ever-afters, organises a preventive breakup when Matías appears — before love can wreak its usual havoc.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally—a romance that doesn't genuflect at the altar of love, instead treating it like the emotional IED it actually is. Gutiérrez flips the entire genre on its head by making the *preventive* move the active choice, and that's genuinely perverse in the best way.
The film operates within a recognizable comedic-romantic tradition while inverting its central values with compositional care; the restraint of the direction and the precision of the tonal register suggest a filmmaker literate in both genre convention and the avant-garde critique of it.
The magic lives in the casting chemistry between the leads—there's a specific electrical charge in how Matías responds to her preemptive rejection that makes the whole premise click, transforming what could've been a gimmick into something genuinely tender and strange.