Qhen you approach a romantic film, willy-nilly you always hope for a happy ending. But what happens when the dream of a love story comes true? That’s what they need to find out Ares and Raquel, the protagonists of From my window – Across the seasequel to From my window and available from a few days on Netflix.
From my window – Across the seathe plot of the movie
The second chapter of the film, based on the novel of the same name by the Venezuelan writer Ariana Godoy, jumps forward in time. It’s been a year since Ares Hidalgo (Julio Peña Fernández) has moved to Stockholm to go to medical school. The story with Raquel (Clara Galle) continues despite the difficulties involved in the distance.
Phone calls and video calls are their daily bread, to which are added short weekends together when the desire to meet again prevents them from focusing on anything else. Summer is upon us, Ares returns to Spain and takes her to the beach house. Once they arrive, they discover they are not alone. There are also the brothers Apolo (Hugo Arbues), Artemis (Eric Masip) and Claudia (Emilia Lazo), the Hidalgos’ handyman maid with whom Artemis has been in a secret relationship for some time. Soon after their closest friends join them, including Yoshi (Alex Polidori)or Raquel’s best friend, madly in love with her.
It’s the beginning of a vacation that will bring out the cracks in their relationshipalthough they have always considered it indestructible. Ares is going through a difficult time. He is dissatisfied with his new life in Sweden, feels that it is not his way, but can not confide in Raquel. From her side, Raquel goes ahead with the studybut has one fixed thought: send your novel to a publishing housebut does not have the courage to do it. To encourage her there is Yoshiwho promises to become his agent.
Vera’s entrance and Yoshi’s doubts
Furthermore, when she meets her university friend Gregory, a longtime friend of Ares, he pretends not to know her. At the beginning of the holiday, to remedy the distance that inevitably cooled them, they promise to look for each other “until they find each other”. However, that promise full of love and hope is perhaps destined to remain so. And who knows if Ares risks losing his “witch”.
As Raquel tries to rewind the threads of her story, Vera (Andrea Chaparro), a great friend of Ares, enters the scene. From the start, Raquel has a strange feeling. She trusts her boyfriend, but Vera seems to have an interest that goes beyond simple friendship. Also for Yoshi it is an interim moment. Particularly because it has to juggling between the attention Anna (Carla Tous) gives him and the hope that Raquel will fall in love finally about him.
“From my window – Beyond the sea”, Guillermop Lashera (Yoshi) and Carla Tous (Anna). (Netflix)
Tragedy ending: who dies?
The holiday goes well or badly normal, until you attend to a turnaround that subverts the fate of all relationships. Primarily, Artemis instead of honoring his promise to Claudia – and that is that he will make their relationship public – he humiliates her in front of her mother, then fires her. And when he realizes he was wrong it will be too late.
Then Raquel learns that Ares has been cheating on her with Vera. His doubts are confirmed: they didn’t move away because of the distance, but because he found another company. Distraught and disappointed, she decides to go on without him. She does it that same evening with Gregory at a party, but tragedy faces their destinies.
A friend of theirs is involved in a serious accident and each of the protagonists is called to come to terms with reality. A new page begins, sadder and emptier than the previous one. Will Ares and Raquel be able to rediscover the complicity they once had? Ares, then, has really betrayed her Or was it just an unfortunate misunderstanding?
Clara Galle (Raquel) and Julio Peña (Ares) in “From my window – Beyond the sea”. (Netflix)
From my window – Across the seathe review
Ares and Raquel embody the light-heartedness of the first great youthful loves, when you are sure that anything is possible and that your love will be able to overcome any obstacle. Very often life shows the other side of the coin: that of reality, far from the romantic picture resulting from falling in love.
From my window – Across the sea keeps expectations. Compared to the pathos of the first chapter, focused on the beginning of relationship between Ares and Raquel, other elements are inserted here. Primarily, the fear of not understanding each other anymore and, above all, of having nothing more to say to each other. Neither Ares nor Raquel seem to find the right shoulder to lean on in the other. Jealousy doesn’t help either. On the contrary, it upsets the already precarious balance.
Clara Galle and Julio Peña Fernández with Andrea Chaparro, in the role of Vera. (Netflix)
Director Marçal Forés directs a film capable of provoking an empathy effectespecially on younger audiences. There is everything that the twenty years represent: the conviction of being unbeatable, the certainty that one’s story will never end, the desire to savor every moment of life. To rock the waters, the tragedy, which transforms an ordinary story into an exceptional one.
In some ways, a partially obvious, but at the same time successful narrative structure. After all, the tragic and sad element helps fuel the viewer’s hopes, who always seeks the happy ending. This time, however, happy endings are not obvious and perhaps for Ares and Raquel the time has come to take two different paths.
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