Un beso de película
2017 · 14m · España
Directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Tones: humorous, tender, whimsical
Inma Cuesta and Quim Gutiérrez are the fashionable acting couple, but in their daily life they realise they no longer kiss as they do in the movies, and they launch a fun reconquest plan — champagne, lobster, music, fireworks — to reconnect in the perfect scene.
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A rom-com about rekindling a kiss sounds like every wedding-adjacent streaming placeholder, except Sánchez Arévalo weaponizes the artifice—the gap between *how* they kiss on set versus off it becomes the actual movie, which is a genuinely twisted premise hiding under champagne bubbles.
The film's meta-textual awareness of cinema's romantic grammar positions it within a lineage of self-aware European comedy, though the execution trades formal rigor for sweetness; it's competent but doesn't quite earn the conceptual weight it's reaching for.
The masterstroke is the final cut back to their real kiss versus the imagined movie version—that specific juxtaposition, the way the frame refuses to choose between them, transforms what could've been a cute premise into something about performance and authenticity that actually lands.