Elena (Sandra Echeverría) and Carlos (Michel Brown) are getting divorced. They are both very happy to finally be free of each other, until they remember how Cupid made a mistake in bringing them together and then Cupid magically appears taking them back to the night they met. The Spanish-language romantic comedy starts off fast and funny and then turns weirdly horrifying.
The first half makes good use of time travel. The older characters come face to face with their younger selves, they can talk to them and interact with them. For them, it's simple, they just have to avoid falling in love. The younger duo is inherently drawn to each other and brings a very light and whimsical romance to the fun and funny premise.
Director: Roberto Girault
Writer: Roberto Girault
Stars: Javier Adrián, Marypaz Aparicio, Harold Azuara
The more we try to stop the younger Elena and Carlos from falling in love, the more the movie becomes too extreme. The older Elena, out of nowhere, decides she needs a gun, so she finds a pistol. The climactic scene that represents the turning point of the film is supposed to be funny (I think), but it involves terrorizing young Carlos by threatening to kill him, and it gets so serious that older Carlos thinks he's about to get shot. And that's when the whole movie falls apart.
Carlos is a lawyer and Elena is a musician. At first, the characters are simplistic, which fits the time-travel rom-com scheme. He doesn't like her music, she doesn't like that he's not funny anymore. Out of nowhere, past the halfway point of the film, a baffling backstory is added to these characters. Now the movie wants to be about grief and depression while playing up its time-travel comedy. It doesn't work; the tonal shifts in genre are baffling at best and make everything about the movie off-putting.
While the older couple is battling their demons (and almost literally so), the younger couple is still trying to keep the romance light. It would almost work if Carlos hadn't been robbed at gunpoint. So many odd choices for such a short movie.
When Future With You is a light-hearted romantic comedy, it's fun, funny, and enjoyable. When it decides to become a drama about grief and tragedy in the middle of a time-travel romantic comedy, it becomes unpleasant and that fun movie at the beginning goes out the window.
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