Un nuevo sabor
2009 · 9m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Vu Nguyen
Genres: comedy, LGBTQ+, romance
After a series of romantic failures, a young woman decides to forget about men — until one of her best friends suggests a new way to find love: this time with women.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise reads like rom-com pulp until you realize the film isn't interested in the sexual awakening angle at all—it's genuinely about friendship and the absurdity of how we prescribe solutions to loneliness, which is disarmingly smart for something that could've been a punchline.
A modest comedy that sits comfortably in the lineage of character-driven romance shorts, executed with clear narrative economy and a tonal steadiness that respects both the humor and the emotional stakes of its protagonist's recalibration.
What lifts this from cute premise to something real is the decision to play the friend's suggestion with complete sincerity—no winking at the camera—which forces the comedy to live in the character's actual vulnerability rather than the concept, and that choice fundamentally changes what the film is about.