One Line Review: Although it has a hackneyed plot and not without clichés, this is a film conceived to delight Benavent fans.
Youtube Trailer Sounds like Love
Starring: María Valverde, Álex González
Director: Juana Macías Alba
Release Date: 29 Sep 2021
Introduction
Netflix finally released their romantic movie and we’re here today to discuss whether or not the movie is worth your time. Let’s start…
Plot Summary
Maca (María Valverde) is 30 years old, clumsy by nature, enjoys life in sips, and tries to be happy. Maca wastes her talents working as an assistant to a tyrannical fashion influencer and hangs out with guys she never gets emotionally engaged with. Together with her two friends, Jimena (Elísabet Casanovas) and Adriana (Susana Abaitúa), unique, overwhelming, and always willing to give everything to make her problems seem lighter, Maca has managed to turn Madrid into a city where everything is possible. Everything seems to be going well, until HE, the unnameable, crosses into her life again. Leo (Alex González), his great love and mistake, the man who broke her heart, destroyed her self-esteem and her faith in the male gender, returns to her life to turn everything upside down.
Netflix making rom-com a thing of future
The world is changing and so are romantic comedies. In fact, it could be said that this genre was revived precisely by Netflix, which saw an upward trend among its users due to the lack of proposals that were released in theaters. In this way, after many -and mostly successful- attempts now comes the film based on the biology ‘Songs and memories’ written by that national treasure that is already Elísabet Benavent. Directed by Juana Macías (Under the same roof) from the script by Laura Sarmiento Pallarés(Intimacy), the film, not without serious clichés, tries to break with some topics of love to teach us that learning to value and love oneself is the key to achieving full happiness, whatever the field.
Where did they get the inspiration though?
However, it’s a shame the film seems like a harmless copy-paste of ‘Valeria’ fueled by forms of its own from ‘Fleabag’ on steroids. And, if we add the protagonists of both series, we get Maca as a result, to which María Valverde ( Rescue Distance ) saves something outside her comfort zone with a correct interpretation. Valverde shares good chemistry with Alex González ( 3 paths ) and his Leo, but that relationship of ‘love’ mixed with a ‘with or without me’ makeup elevates the category of cheesy toxicity until credulity says enough. The characters of Elísabet Casanovas ( Doctor Portuondo ) and Susana Abaitúa ( Crazy about her ), actresses of great talent who give for much more and who are carried away by the far-fetched stories of Jimena and Adriana, are not spared in this either.
It is appreciated that at least, despite its trite main plot, the romantic relationships narrated in ‘Sounds like love’ does not have as much impact as the evolution of the three protagonists. In addition, it is always a pleasure to see real women in action, although it is undeniable that this time there are some aspects in the personality of these characters that are quite crazy. However, precisely this makes the subplots of Casanovas and Abaitúa in particular more fun within their artificial comedy: one for its message of acceptance and the other for its hilarious and sad and macabre melancholy. Another issue is that all the morals preached in the film are relevant, make sense or feel realistic. It will depend on the person.
Conclusion
Nor is it that one thing takes away the other because, despite everything, this is a film that will delight Benavent fans, as it contains all the essence and spirit of the novels. After all, that’s what it’s all about.
