Breaking up, the songs tell us, is so very hard to do. But Ale (Itsaso Arana) and Alex (Vito Sanz) wonder — as an attractive Madrileño couple who've decided to call it quits — what if it doesn't have to be?

Spanish director Jonás Trueba (whose equally delightful You Have to Come And See It played in BFF'22) spins a loopy tale of two people who've fallen out of love but not out of like, determined to harpoon the ultimate relationship white whale: the pleasant break-up.

New lovers have a million movies celebrating them; this one is for the new exes, and for all the poor deluded fools who believe that they can go from being great together to being great apart without any hurt. Just because it's a doomed endeavor, doesn't mean it isn't noble, and in Trueba's lithe, airy style, also very funny.

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