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The Other Way Around

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After 15 years as a couple, Ale and Alex decide to throw a party to celebrate their separation, leaving their loved ones perplexed.

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Tara Brady Irish Times ...[The Other Way Around is] a witty, cerebral film that initially evokes mature classics such as Scenes from a Marriage and Annie Hall, before veering into playfully modernist territory. Rated: 3.5/5 Jul 18, 2025 Full Review Kevin Maher The Times (UK) This is a fresh and often moving take on the evaporation of intimacy in long-term relationships and how formative family life can linger, often unhelpfully, in adult love. Rated: 4/5 Jul 16, 2025 Full Review David Jenkins Little White Lies The Other Way Around offers a chorus of discourse and commentary and draws humour out of the fact that everyone thinks that Alex and Ale’s decision is an implicit criticism of their own bourgeois complacency. Rated: 3/5 Jul 14, 2025 Full Review Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Tracing a breakup with earthy humour and meta storytelling, Spanish filmmaker Jonas Trueba is exploring modern romantic attitudes that sit at odds with the messaging in most movies. Rated: 4/5 Jul 14, 2025 Full Review Helen Hawkins The Arts Desk Can a romcom be intellectually challenging while hitting all the sweet spots of the genre? Jonás Trueba...has confected something close to that. Rated: 4/5 Jul 11, 2025 Full Review Ross McIndoe The Skinny But even once you’ve understood the point of it all, watching the same thing repeatedly recurring simply isn’t that interesting – no matter what Kierkegaard said. Rated: 2/5 Jul 7, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Vivien D This film was definitely not for me, dull and boring. Extremely monotone and didn't seem to get anywhere. Walked out after an hour Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/03/25 Full Review Marco L "Volveréis" es un claro ejemplo del estilo único de Jonás Trueba, quien en esta película despliega su habilidad para capturar los matices de las emociones humanas y las complejidades de las relaciones interpersonales. La película, con su tono delicado y melancólico, consigue explorar el amor, el desamor y las decisiones que definen nuestras vidas, todo ello a través de un guion que combina momentos de profunda reflexión con toques de humor sutil. La narrativa se construye alrededor de unos personajes cuya autenticidad es el corazón del filme. Trueba logra que sus protagonistas se sientan vivos y cercanos, permitiendo que el espectador se identifique con ellos. A través de diálogos naturales y cuidadosamente elaborados, "Volveréis" ahonda en las contradicciones y los anhelos de sus protagonistas, mientras estos enfrentan las realidades del amor y el paso del tiempo. Visualmente, la película es un deleite. Trueba utiliza los escenarios madrileños para crear un paisaje emocional que enmarca perfectamente las vivencias de los personajes. La cámara, en constante movimiento, refuerza la sensación de inmediatez y vida cotidiana que caracteriza su cine. Además, la dirección de arte y la banda sonora complementan el tono introspectivo del filme, envolviendo al espectador en una atmósfera íntima y envolvente. Una de las características destacables de "Volveréis" es su capacidad para equilibrar la ligereza de una comedia romántica con la profundidad de una reflexión existencial. Trueba no se conforma con el tratamiento superficial de sus temas; en cambio, construye una experiencia cinematográfica rica en matices y cargada de significado. Las referencias culturales y la autorreferencialidad, tan presentes en su obra, añaden capas adicionales de interpretación para aquellos que deseen explorarlas. Si bien algunos podrían argumentar que el ritmo pausado de la película y su enfoque introspectivo pueden no ser del gusto de todos, es precisamente esta cadencia lo que permite a "Volveréis" destacar como un filme que privilegia la calidad sobre la inmediatez. Trueba se toma su tiempo para construir sus momentos, dejando que la emoción fluya de manera natural y sincera. "Volveréis" es, en definitiva, un testimonio del talento de Jonás Trueba como narrador y cineasta. Es una película que captura con sensibilidad la esencia de las relaciones humanas, dejando una impresión duradera en aquellos dispuestos a dejarse llevar por su ritmo y profundidad. Una obra imprescindible para los amantes del cine introspectivo y emocional. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/25 Full Review Alan W Based on a phrase by his father, the Oscar-winning director of Belle Epoque, Fernando Trueba, that couples should celebrate separations instead of unions, (and then he cameos as the father who coins that phrase which inspires the main characters to do exactly that) director Jonas Trueba has, in collaboration with his two leading actors, Vito Sanz & Itsaso Arana, given us here a delightfully meta, very cinema-literate non-rom-com in which Sanz's Alex and Arana's Ale decide to throw a party for their friends and family to celebrate the end of their 14-years relationship. The bulk of the film then involves Alex and Ale informing their various friends and colleagues, in the same repetitive, parrot-like fashion, and the perplexing reactions they receive from them, ranging from enthusiastic approval to denials and total dismay. Infused with a very dry sense of observational humour, with highfalutin influences from Kierkegaard to Ingmar Bergman, it's also a very self conscious and aware film that constantly remind you of the existence of the camera; while a self critical and mocking tone permeates the film, especially when Ale, who happens to be a filmmaker, is seen working on a film that looks awfully like the same one we're watching. In a blatant case of having one's cake and eat it too, it purports to be a linear as well as a circular and discursive film where characters do not grow and an open-ended ambiguous ending underlines its European arthouse sentiments. Intriguingly experimental, this is an enchantingly mischievous and spirited film that's nothing like anything I've seen before in this genre. The Spanish title translate to: you'll get back together, and that's about as sentimental as this film wishes to get. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/25/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis After 15 years as a couple, Ale and Alex decide to throw a party to celebrate their separation, leaving their loved ones perplexed.
Director
Jonás Trueba
Producer
Javier Lafuente, Jonás Trueba
Screenwriter
Jonás Trueba, Itsaso Arana, Vito Sanz
Production Co
Les Films du Worso, Los Ilusos Films
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Runtime
1h 54m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)