Un ligue de emergencia
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by David Canto
After risking dodgy supermarket sushi once too often, novelist Gema gets trapped in her building's lift with stomach cramps; the charming emergency operator Andrés recognises her from a hen party, and she flirts with him to speed up her rescue.
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The scouts
A rom-com premise so airless and predictable it feels like it was focus-grouped in a supermarket break room—two conventionally attractive people flirt in a lift, stakes nonexistent, the sushi setup a throwaway gimmick that the film itself doesn't even bother to earn.
Canto demonstrates a secure sense of romantic comedy timing and the elevator-as-stage recalls a lineage from Wilder through Ephron, though the execution here feels more sitcom beat-sheet than the considered emotional architecture that elevates the form.
The entire film hinges on whatever performance Canto extracts in that cramped 3-minute space—if there's a specific moment of vulnerability or genuine chemistry that transcends the rom-com scaffolding, it's hiding too well beneath the whimsy.