Her expression when he asked if she was happy broke my heart. And then that hug at the end...and when she said "I'm fine" and got choked up on the phone.....ugh...my heart!!
Such amazing actors!! You felt every heart-string tug that they felt throughout the entire thing. And the pauses between their words… good lord, their facial expressions and eyes spoke volumes. Crazy how just a few words…. ‘Oh I had coffee with an old friend today’ turns into an entire heart-wrenching story when you’re able to see just a few minutes of interaction with the 2 people.
I felt this so much. He gave someone else what she truly wanted, and she is settling because she thinks it will make her happy. I hung on the actors' every expression. And that parting hug spoke volumes.
I think it is an issue of learning to compromise. He learned his lesson after loosing her. Goes after her and even apologizes to her, taking the full blame for their break up 2 years prior. She, on the other hand, appears to have moved on but, by her last statement, we see that she is still not willing to compromise in relationships. She is about to get married. She wants "her dalias" for her wedding no matter what. No other flowers will do. She has even been told dalias are not in season. That appears to indicate she is not very flexible in matters of "her wants". Relations are all about compromises, the "givings" and the "takings".
Hi Zoran, I am writing to you because your name is Zoran. Two weeks ago I drove 231 km to meet a man with this name for the first time. A wonderful weekend together. Then we were apart and done. Maybe it is the best we could achieve. So be it. A sweet memory forever.
Very difficult to see a so perfect short movie. Written and directed superbly, cinematography impressive, acting intense and "real". Congratulation for this little chiefwork
Obsessed with this film, I saw it maybe 25 times. It held a mistery for me. Was so sad for Alicia. I rewatched it again and again to try to get what hid in between words and looks. Not so sad for her anymore. Here are my observations and hypothesis : - she is very determined and a little "omnipotent" : what she wants, she must get. Job. Children. Even for little things, like flowers to her wedding. Her time must be "the" time, despite seasons. - She was in the same control with Javi, who therefore, didn't feel accepted and really loved for who he was. - Many deep issues in the relation : he is an artist who needs to "let go", she is more like a manager... kind of opposites. - The young pregnant lady seems very sweet and loving. Maybe he felt accepted as he is by her, so, even if it wasn't his choice to have children, it's become easier for him to give her what she wanted. When you are in acceptance and welcoming, everything becomes easier... even if the feelings are maybe not as intense. - Life seems to be teaching Alicia a lesson of letting go, renunciation, acceptance... for a deeper capacity for love.
I’m still watching but your beautiful interpretation pretty much described my daughters relationship with an ex. Together 7 years but she expects too much and is demanding, he’s easy going…and he just married a woman who is pregnant.
Wow, so touching. So many of us have been there- you leave because you deserve better, and then out of contrition, he gives someone else what you wanted so bad.
Yeah I was often thinking how come they easily give to others what I wanted, and I was there first LOL if he only treated me like he treats her now... how silly anyway... since I read Louise Hay it all clicked
After finishing it, I don’t think he’s a narcissist. He probably just wasn’t sure what he wanted in life before. But still, be careful of narcissistic people and remember, moving on asap will help you much more than trying to figure out why.
That hug was so realistic, it said a thousand words. It gave them both a chance to say everything thst needed to be said without words. I don't blame either of them to be honest, she could have waited, he could have fulfilled her dream. Now both of them in some way have to learn to live with thst love that is lost, not easy.
I was going to comment something like ‘ yeah he did want to settle down and have kids, just not with you’ - but I like your description better. You understood it more.
She couldn't just keep waiting, they are clearly both in their mid 30s, he was obviously not willing to take a job that could provide because he saw it as a sacrifice. But by traveling with no plan and coming back broke, he ended up in the family business anyway. Like I always say to my kids "not making a decision is a choice. It's just that the choice is made for you." It doesn't sound like he loves his new girlfriend but now that are having a child and he had to take a job he doesn't want If a woman wants children she can't keep waiting indefinitely and he wasn't willing to settle down and be responsible. I think its better they broke up, its sounds like he is going to end up resenting letting go of his dreams for stability. While ultimately she is driven and has goals, she just got a promotion and she is proud of her abilities, she is getting married etc. They ultimately do have different values.
@@amandamorgan2802 Yes, she is marrying ‘On the rebound’! My mother married my father on the rebound after losing her true love towards the end of world war ll. As a result, I had quite a traumatic early life, and grew up, totally insecure and still lack confidence to this day aged seventy four.
For me the movie came together with that hug. Before that I enjoyed it and felt it was well made with good acting. But that hug was so moving and human, so very real. It's not something you see captured on film very often. Well done, whoever created that moment.
@@MALINKAAM Or at the wrong time. Glad she met and is marrying someone else. It never happened to me but what I learned was to love and heal myself instead.
@@justyuri797 Right. I've met some guys where it would've totally worked out had we met at a different time in our lives. Sad. Then there's other ones that are really just wrong for you. In the end, just gotta learn to love yourself. Wch sometimes is the hardest part!
@@utubefreshie yep. got up and tried to focus on myself for the last 5 years after the relationship with the girl didn't work out (wrong time and working environment problems). but i'm doing quite okay now and thankfully still doing okay despite covid situations. hope you are okay too. 👍
Chest-thumping with national pride while criticizing others isn't a good thing. There are many talented, excellent actors (of all genders) around the world, working in film and stage.
There is SO MUCH crammed into this short film. It begins and ends with her "I want what I want" wedding plans, which is fine, okay, but a hint to her character. She's "busy," as she apparently was when they were together (and got promoted; the busy-ness paid off). She wanted her coffee to go; had to be persuaded to stay. His first question is about her mom! He's thoughtful. Asks if she's happy; she cannot say. He has grown. He's grounded and practical: working for his dad--not what he wanted. Stopped smoking (we'll learn why). He's become the man she'd wanted. She's settling because she wants what she wants now.
@CliveNDerek No, you are twisting things around, like a typical chauvinist. He is the one who wanted everything his way, as he says himself - 'when they make you feel guilty for doing EVERYTHING that you like'! Everybody cannot do EVERYTHING that they like and expect the other person to be accommodative to all YOUR desires alone. There should be give and take. She wanted a family and he didn't, till he met the other woman. Now, he's gone ahead with that. That's nothing but hypocrisy. Having selfishly gone gallivanting and screwed with her feelings, now he's got the cheek to ask her to sit down with him for coffee and wants to know if she is really happy! No, duh, thanks to YOU!! What is wrong with being a 'busy' professional? Or is it wrong only when a woman is that? You don't at all sound like the jealous kind, pish!! As a man, I blame the woman for having sat down with him at all. She should have flung the coffee in his face if he insisted, by so much as touching her. She needn't even have set eyes on his girl - she brought it upon herself.
Overwelming. I don't get how people who watch this incredible short film can affirm the intentions, feelings, personnalities of the characters with such assertivity. What is extraordinary in this film is that it reflects the complexity of life, without giving "answers". Each of us can project their own vision of the situation, and nobody is right or wrong. It's brilliant because it's so opened and true. No necessity to judge one or the other. Complexity of life. So many questions without answers.
I could watch them act for hours. Those eyes spoke more than words. They were beyond perfection. Impeccable 🥺 It's one of those short films that I will keep coming back to ❤️ It felt realistic to the core with such a beautiful song. Endless list of subtleties that were well put together in this film deserves an applause 👏🏻
WOW ! What a tear jerker. Had a moment like that in my life. Devastating. But Life goes on as the cliche says and here I am 36 years later. Thank you for the film !!!
Here bawling my eyes out. That hug. I've been there before. I could feel it. They did an amazing job! I loved this short. It made me remember how much I want that feeling again. That loving connection.
Ignore that comment , everyone wants what you said , they just may not be able to face it . I long for the same , a true , deep love , shared both ways with the love of my life ! Forever .
Especially so if we think of what dahlia flowers symbolize, ie. commitment to someone or something... They're also associated with steadfastness, due to their ability to bloom after many other flowers have died...
Whoever is reading this from video's side. I can't express in words how i felt through the entire film. I cant understand spanish but still i felt every single moment of this. The lady who played alicia had my heart. The entire time, her acting , I cant define in words. Alicia was trying to hold the tears from the beginning and that hug t end , all this made me so emotional . I can't stop myself from rewatching it again and again. I have watched it 5 times since yesterday. Hats off to the makers.
The actors ...They blew my mind.No words can describe how they expressed the feelings! Brilliant acting ! I think we only begin to realise how much we loved someone after losing them.
And that , like many things in life , you never get over , you just learn how to live with it . Life is hard , love is even harder , true , genuine love should come quite easy . That’s how you know .
I can’t believe I just stumbled across this video through YT recommendation and cried after watching it. It hits me. They are so natural that it doesn’t even look like they’re acting at all. Love it.💜
I really felt this. I'm Alicia, totally in doing mode (when I was younger) and believing happiness is something I can create. It's fabulous the way he looks at her throughout this film. Kudos to the actors.
I don't believe I seen better acting than that of Alexa Jimenez as Alicia. I watched in awe, how, in the course of 12 or so minutes, every nuance of of the slow 'disrobing' of Alicia's emotions is miraculously uncovered for us. Just as in a Chekhov story, in her performance, a whole lifetime is distilled into a passing moment. In the dramatic honesty of her mobile expressions we can trace her transition from hopeful past, pregnant present, and disconsolate future and read it like a book, sheer acting artistry. She is ably counterpointed by Daniel Grao, as Javi
That's one way to look at it. Or, it confirms his continued Peter Pan attitude toward life. He wants to travel the world, hot girl on his side, no responsibilities. But, if that doesn't work out Daddy's there to bail him out. You know that pregnancy was unplanned. Let's hope he's able to finally man up. But given how quick he was to take the ex-GF's hand says otherwise. I hope the ex-GF continues to stay strong and know that, as much as she loved him, he would not make her happy.
I don’t feel it’s that at all, it’s a question of timing. He wasn’t ready, didn’t know what he was losing and let her go. Now pregnancy happened to him and sadly not with the person he now realized he wanted. He clearly loves his ex still but she moved on and he has responsibilities now and is taking them seriously, it doesn’t mean he’s a bad person if he took his ex’s hand, come on. What is sad is that you know, in the long run, they both probably won’t be happy and will always have regrets. Doing the « right thing » comes at a price but you should own your choices when children are involved.
As someone who gave up everything creative I wanted for my first husband including living around the world, I applaud the guy in this for knowing what he wanted to do, even when the woman criticized him. I divorced my ex who wanted a simple life and now I'm married to someone who's compatible with me. And we've lived all over the world and we're both creatives. I'm 1000 times happier. I wish I'd had the courage to stand against everyone who thinks life has to be lived "normal" and followed who I really am. I could have saved myself a decade of misery. But in this guy's case, he wishes he could have had his adventures and this woman who, clearly, wasn't a good match for him.
Great short story and so full of emotion. well done to the actors. Alicia comes across as a woman who is driven and has goals and good on her for wanting to strive for things in her life. Javi is a free spirit who wants to travel with no responsibilities and wanted to be a writer which is all well and good but that needs money. If they did marry and have kids, their relationship will not have survived as they are two different people with very different goals in life. They tried but they were not able to compromise so was best to move on and find partners who are more compatible. Life is made of up of compromises and nothing is ever going to be 100% perfect. You have to weigh up what you are prepared to compromise on to be happy. There is no point in committing to someone, no matter how much you love them, if the compromises/sacrifices are too high a price to pay. There is a fine line between love and hate.
I was this woman once and made my choice between the irresponsible love of my life who'd kill for me but couldn't get a job - and a much less romantic but reliable and grounded man. 20 years and 3 kids later, am I crazily happy? No, but it's what you call an good ordinary life. Would I have been happy with the first one? I doubt very much. After all, you need so much more than puppy love to build a family. We all make choices in life, and that one was the hardest for me. I did the right thing but I certainly miss the pure happiness of my youth which I shared with the love of my life. PS. He never married.
I was in the man's situation in this scenario. And I did marry the person who didn't want the adventure, and I was miserable for ten years. We both were. I finally divorced him and I'm now married to a man who is creative and adventurous. We are both artists and work freelance. We have lived together all over the world and haven't rented a proper house in years because we house sit other people's mansions. It's a wonderful life and I'm so much happier. But I understand that when people want a traditional life and children, that's a completely different desire. I never wanted those things. And security isn't my top concern. Living life passionately is what I want. And I feel so blessed to have someone who sees life the same way. And just because people are artists or creative does not mean they are poor and unable to live a beautiful life. We have everything we need and we don't have to sell our souls at a 9 to 5 job to have it.
It's a good movie. A good reflection of real life. It is a blessing when one can have a proper closure at a time when the pain of break up feels so strong. Two years had gone by and the girl still had grieving to do, letting go of the past. Good job, Javi, for recognizing that and not letting the awkwardness of a situation get in the way of a good closure hug. Well done, NITV !
She was stunned to see that he was having a family with another woman. The very thing she wanted with him. Yet they still loved each other. Exceptional acting.
I can't believe that this short film touched me so much. This tension between them was almost touchable through the table. Her emotions of seeing someone who you loved and who wasn't ready to do smth for you, but got ready to do it for another person.
It is not silly at all,the man I was engaged to left 5 years 3 weeks 6 days ago and was left to pick up the pieces of my life ..I loved him ,simply loved him....but it was not enough...
Hello, I can only speak for myself...growing up it was never spoken/shown in my family. I did not know that exhisted until I was in my 30s. By then I had been married 14 years, had 2 children. I met a fellow volunteer, we joined for very different reasons. He was also in a bad marriage. For 3 years we were friends. Then we were both divorced. Then, we were together for the 25 of the happiest years of our lives! So...there is alway a chance!raf
I wanted that too. I gave my life over to Jesus Christ. Because He's the only one that can heal damaged hearts. I prayed too. And He gave me a faithfull wife. Nothing better than let Jesus Christ decide what should happen on your life.
@@robertafatur7881 hey roberta hope you are doing well, i just wanted to ask if you guys are still together after 25 years ? I know its been a while since Left this comment but it wasn't clear from comment as to what is the current state of both of your relationship. Take Care !
i lost the love of my life. He quickly moved on and found someone else. hell even i found someone else. Im happy. I adore my now boyfriend. But nothing compares to what i felt before. This movie is amazing. Its so well made. its seriously messing me up, even after i thought i'd be ok now.
The love of my life is getting married on saturday. we both moved on...but...are we truly happy? I never loved anyone like i loved him. this movie messed me up too... but i keep thinking life goes on, and it was probably not meant to be.
Preciosa y potente. Ambos actores están maravillosos pero Alexandra sobresale con maestría. El dolor al ver a la nueva novia embarazada se ha reflejado a la perfección en su mirada. Ese abrazo al final refleja tanto los sentimientos pasados (el hecho de que ella le abrace más fuerte, que le huela el cuello aspirando su aroma como recordándole...) como le da a ella la oportunidad de cerrar una puerta que, a mi parecer aún estaba entreabierta. En mi opinión, por mucho que él ahora esté en esa etapa que ella le demandaba dos años atrás, su relación no hubiera durado por mucho amor (que se palpa) se tuvieran. Para que una pareja salga adelante no solo tiene que haber amor, sino también compartir valores y formas de ver la vida y ellos no lo hacía. Solo espero que si fuera la vida real ella terminase de llorarlo y, por fin, pasase página y fuera feliz con su futuro marido. Bravo, bravísimo!!!
No creo que cerrara nada, de hecho lo expresa en su proxima llamada, llena de frustracion y desconsolada, pero si fue tal como dices cada detale cuetna pero esa parte asi la vi.
Su marido solo cubre un pasado, no es feliz en esa relaicion solo sigue adelante sin haber dejado atras... y no es solo amor, es compresion y pasciencia, creo que eso le falto a ambos. Tal vez en aquella ocasion no, pero si se esperaban podria ser...
From the acting, directing, camera angles, to the editing, this beautiful short flim draws me in and kept me there. When it is over, it almost felt like i have intrude into a person's private moment. An absolute masterpiece!
This was v. v. good - like a film from an earlier time - when human relationships and society were real - the writing, the acting, the expressions the actors allow themselves to give, (Javi's eyes are extraordinary in the emotions they convey), I would have done a less predictable ending except for the great last phone call, but very impressive, excellent work by all, it gives me hope for film again - thank you to whoever directed this lovely little gem.
Cannot beat this film!!! So much captured in less than 15 minutes, in less than 50 feet, in less than two hands touching and one hug. Few visible tears under an ocean of years of heartache both two years and the future!!!!
The real partner is the one who helps you find yourself. That partner may come disguised as a person, or as a talent such as writing. But in the end, to find oneself is the real love we are looking for. And it's the only love we can share.
A lost a love! It happened with me, and I can assure, it is not easy. I´ve never stopped to think about her. Yes, it has more than 2 years, and I think about her every single day. That`s my life, that`s my burden!
I am going to set a goal to watch more of these I get more out of them. Sometimes I spend 2 hours on a film and am either disappointed, disgusted, confused or nonplussed. This was great.
I am learning Spanish. This film has gave me so much motivation to keep learning. It’s such a amazing tale of heartache and shows a potential love that could’ve been and should’ve been. The hug spoke a million words without a single syllable leaving their mouths. I needed this film right mow
An evocative short film. Life doesn’t move on it simply pauses in the hope you reunite. It’s our fragile ego and fear that stops us making the move towards something that makes sense to our hearts but not our minds. Why settle for imperfection when you let perfect escape? I think that’s why so many divorce in later life perhaps resuming something they lost in the frenetic pace of their youth. Maybe that’s the unwritten ending of this short.
Life is so unfair to Alicia all she ever wanted was to have a family with the love of her life but he wasn't ready. After 2 years they meet again and it looks like he is going to be having a family first. . . Obviously they still love each other . . . my heart breaks for Alicia.
Why would he start a family and get divorce after 7,8 years and will lose child custody,half of his asset's,also have to pay child support,all feminist and anti men laws are the reasons that why men don't get married in western societies.
@@MALINKAAM he's not immature he's doing ok,if I was living in western society I will never ever marry or have childrens bcz I know all marriage laws favour women and men get raped by so called family court system.
@hi not really. She just got pregnant coz she wanted without asking him. They had a passionate sex and it happened. Men do not think of protection, a woman always thinks about it. Alicia was too much of a nice girl, trying to convince him to have a family, rather than just get pregnant.
Dahlias are the funeral flowers. We always bring Dahlias at the funerals. I am an Orthodox Christian. I've prayed to GOD for a long, long time to give me the grace to move on and let go of my past. This extraordinary short movie just helped me do that. How MERCIFUL is our GOD. HE never abandons his children. HE listens to our prayers. All GLORY to GOD ALMIGHTY in all eternity. Amen! 🙏❤🕊
@@loredanababuci4700 - Blech! 🤮You Christians - always thinking it's necessary due to your training (and brain-washing from childhood) to "spread the _imaginary garbage"_ - er, _"gospel,"_ in forums where it's irrelevant and inappropriate to do so.
That hug got me. I just had that kind of hug with my best friend who I'm so in love with but know I can't have. She is gone visiting family and won't be back for a little while. Our last night together has been replaying in my mind for about a week. This short film is so good. So much said with expressions and minimal dialog.
So much emotion in this little gem of a film! The acting was impeccable and brilliant! Hope to see more of them again! Felicitaciones a todos que contribuyeron a esta linda película. Me encanto! 👏🏼✨💕
I cried, I feel the same elusive feeling You want it but you cannot hold it Perhaps something is missing, it is not for you although you think about it all the time Complicated ❤️ ❤️
I came across the film by accident. What a gem! It is perfect in every component and detail: dialogues, timing, duration, and above all - the acting! So real and so painful! I watched it several times in a row.
I have seen this short film way before it came out on RUclips countless times. The acting is nothing short of perfection. The story touched a deep unhealed wound in my heart. The one I wanted but will never have. 😔
To think that one can become totally devastated after seeing a 13 minute film is beyond my ability to understand. I want to see the entire story from beginning to end‼️💔
Very touching film. with fantastic actors. Both still love each other and both suffer from not making it to a life together. She still loves him very much. The sadness for their "lost" love happiness is unmistakably shown at 8:40. Both will love each other for the rest of their lives, the last embrace shows that very clearly.
Life is always a compromise, and very often our first true love teaches us that, but not until we’ve lost it. Only then, after living with the heartache are we experienced enough to make a mature choice, which he was finally capable of doing. They were each other’s teachers and first loves, and what an important role they each played for the other. As so beautifully played by the actor, he was clearly a good man, and would make his new love happy. She clearly IS happy. And Alicia IS planning her dream wedding…with someone else. It’s a lovely story of love never being lost even when life has other plans for us.
I feel she still loves Javi profoundly, and not so much the one she is marrying. Especially when reunited with the emotions she has for Javi. That frozen smile melts away as she falls apart and the feelings flow out of her. Does she really care about dahlias? Will she cry at her wedding with the one she doesn't really love. She needs to fill her live with something.
I was waiting for him to tell her when he ran after her that the baby the woman carried wasn't his, and he loved Alicia and wanted to be with her and they would walk away together. 😭🥰 School and parents sometimes doesn't teach us to know how to be , it just is!!! Lost love rarely returns. But, if it does heal your hearts, and love that person with 150%!!! Shout from the mountain tops the overwhelming joy that you both have. Life is short! You may only have a deep passionate love come 3x in life, if your very just one time.
And that's why I love the film Closer, a real lovestory. Because we are lost in moments where we take most of times wrong decisions that send us away from the people who we truly love. And we keep going adjusting to realities that seems to we chose but were most of the times a way to escape from ourselves from the misery of not having what we really wanted because we took it for granted.
Just spent an hour trawling through Damien Rice songs…I need to learn Spanish. The song is “Fragility” by The Trees, as it says in the credits. Great film and music.
Her expression when he asked if she was happy broke my heart. And then that hug at the end...and when she said "I'm fine" and got choked up on the phone.....ugh...my heart!!
Such amazing actors!! You felt every heart-string tug that they felt throughout the entire thing. And the pauses between their words… good lord, their facial expressions and eyes spoke volumes. Crazy how just a few words…. ‘Oh I had coffee with an old friend today’ turns into an entire heart-wrenching story when you’re able to see just a few minutes of interaction with the 2 people.
I felt this so much. He gave someone else what she truly wanted, and she is settling because she thinks it will make her happy. I hung on the actors' every expression. And that parting hug spoke volumes.
Only the timing was wrong. She wanted him 2 yrs. ago, he wasn't ready then, she's not really ready to move on now. 👍Very touching short.
Maybe they weren’t planning on getting pregnant! Maybe she moved with him because they decided to commit more after she got pregnant
@@marisabrowne4633 ya, that seems to be the most plausible conclusion; however, does anything ever actually turn out in the most plausible sense?
I think it is an issue of learning to compromise. He learned his lesson after loosing her. Goes after her and even apologizes to her, taking the full blame for their break up 2 years prior. She, on the other hand, appears to have moved on but, by her last statement, we see that she is still not willing to compromise in relationships. She is about to get married. She wants "her dalias" for her wedding no matter what. No other flowers will do. She has even been told dalias are not in season. That appears to indicate she is not very flexible in matters of "her wants". Relations are all about compromises, the "givings" and the "takings".
@@lalitafuentes1692 beautiful analyse !!
Something like this happened to me some ten years ago.
I never cried… until now.
Never realized how much I needed a good cry.
Doesn’t mean that they ended up with their person 😢🙏
❤️
@@Vonmacfire Agree- same idea ( read my comments/essay? lol)
@Rose Crow but even though we cry some can't move on for their debilating grief
Hi Zoran, I am writing to you because your name is Zoran. Two weeks ago I drove 231 km to meet a man with this name for the first time. A wonderful weekend together. Then we were apart and done. Maybe it is the best we could achieve. So be it. A sweet memory forever.
Sometimes you never stop loving someone. Two years is nothing.
but giving them what thry want aeems impossible.
When you’ve loved you never really stop loving. Whether they are lost to death or to life, true love doesn’t end as you wish, it lives with you.
@@NK-iv1ik So true. It is eternal.
Believe me! 50 years is nothing.
@@NK-iv1ik May I write a song with your comment as a central component of the lyrics of the song? What you wrote is so beautiful !
Very difficult to see a so perfect short movie. Written and directed superbly, cinematography impressive, acting intense and "real". Congratulation for this little chiefwork
Obsessed with this film, I saw it maybe 25 times. It held a mistery for me. Was so sad for Alicia. I rewatched it again and again to try to get what hid in between words and looks. Not so sad for her anymore. Here are my observations and hypothesis :
- she is very determined and a little "omnipotent" : what she wants, she must get. Job. Children. Even for little things, like flowers to her wedding. Her time must be "the" time, despite seasons.
- She was in the same control with Javi, who therefore, didn't feel accepted and really loved for who he was.
- Many deep issues in the relation : he is an artist who needs to "let go", she is more like a manager... kind of opposites.
- The young pregnant lady seems very sweet and loving. Maybe he felt accepted as he is by her, so, even if it wasn't his choice to have children, it's become easier for him to give her what she wanted. When you are in acceptance and welcoming, everything becomes easier... even if the feelings are maybe not as intense.
- Life seems to be teaching Alicia a lesson of letting go, renunciation, acceptance... for a deeper capacity for love.
Such an insightful, mature, healthy interpretation. Thanks for sharing this :)
@@themrssimpson143 Thank you ! So happy it could "help" ;)
Wow! I didn’t think of it like that! Thank you for sharing your thoughts
@@caroldunn9035 Thank you ! :)
I’m still watching but your beautiful interpretation pretty much described my daughters relationship with an ex. Together 7 years but she expects too much and is demanding, he’s easy going…and he just married a woman who is pregnant.
His eyes, her forced smile, the hug, everything so sad. Made me cry.
The actress deserves an Oscar...
Look at her expressions...
Her acting at 8:38 when she’s faced with the question of whether she’s actually happy or not is just amazing. So natural and real.
And his too. It's telling how neither one of them answered the question.
Wow, so touching. So many of us have been there- you leave because you deserve better, and then out of contrition, he gives someone else what you wanted so bad.
I’m sure he still doesn’t want to have kids and it was an accident. One immature man in here, AVOID!
Yeah I was often thinking how come they easily give to others what I wanted, and I was there first LOL if he only treated me like he treats her now... how silly anyway... since I read Louise Hay it all clicked
@@bbb-1-2-3 It’s often a narcissist doing it knowing how it’s pushing your buttons. They’ll hurt their next play thing later on.
After finishing it, I don’t think he’s a narcissist. He probably just wasn’t sure what he wanted in life before. But still, be careful of narcissistic people and remember, moving on asap will help you much more than trying to figure out why.
Its heartbreaking. I remember 😔💔
That hug was so realistic, it said a thousand words. It gave them both a chance to say everything thst needed to be said without words.
I don't blame either of them to be honest, she could have waited, he could have fulfilled her dream. Now both of them in some way have to learn to live with thst love that is lost, not easy.
I was going to comment something like ‘ yeah he did want to settle down and have kids, just not with you’ - but I like your description better. You understood it more.
She couldn't just keep waiting, they are clearly both in their mid 30s, he was obviously not willing to take a job that could provide because he saw it as a sacrifice. But by traveling with no plan and coming back broke, he ended up in the family business anyway.
Like I always say to my kids "not making a decision is a choice. It's just that the choice is made for you." It doesn't sound like he loves his new girlfriend but now that are having a child and he had to take a job he doesn't want
If a woman wants children she can't keep waiting indefinitely and he wasn't willing to settle down and be responsible. I think its better they broke up, its sounds like he is going to end up resenting letting go of his dreams for stability.
While ultimately she is driven and has goals, she just got a promotion and she is proud of her abilities, she is getting married etc.
They ultimately do have different values.
She does not look happy, inspite of her coming wedding.Maybe she rushed into something,just to forget about this one.
@@amandamorgan2802 Yes, she is marrying ‘On the rebound’! My mother married my father on the rebound after losing her true love towards the end of world war ll. As a result, I had quite a traumatic early life, and grew up, totally insecure and still lack confidence to this day aged seventy four.
For me the movie came together with that hug. Before that I enjoyed it and felt it was well made with good acting. But that hug was so moving and human, so very real. It's not something you see captured on film very often. Well done, whoever created that moment.
Incredible acting, that's how it is when people truly love one another even though life situations don't come together. Beautiful film!
Perfect example of when you fall in love with the wrong person. She had a lucky escape
@@MALINKAAM Or at the wrong time. Glad she met and is marrying someone else. It never happened to me but what I learned was to love and heal myself instead.
@@utubefreshie this. 💯. timing play a huge part. and based on personal experience and observation i know that timing is a bitch. 😥😥😥
@@justyuri797 Right. I've met some guys where it would've totally worked out had we met at a different time in our lives. Sad. Then there's other ones that are really just wrong for you. In the end, just gotta learn to love yourself. Wch sometimes is the hardest part!
@@utubefreshie yep. got up and tried to focus on myself for the last 5 years after the relationship with the girl didn't work out (wrong time and working environment problems). but i'm doing quite okay now and thankfully still doing okay despite covid situations. hope you are okay too. 👍
Now I see again for a million time how much gifted are the Spanish actors and actresses. They are a billion levels beyond many Hollywood ''stars''.
Chest-thumping with national pride while criticizing others isn't a good thing. There are many talented, excellent actors (of all genders) around the world, working in film and stage.
well shiishh you all not always acting but expressive naturale...some spaces express less
@bistra There are hundreds of Hollywood stars and many are world class. Stupid to compare.
Hollywood Jokers, the whole industry is a scam.
The actress is incredibly good. She says so much with just her expressions
Alexandra Jiménez, a great spanish actress.
They are both great! I have watched this movies so many times and it still gives me goosebumps.
Both actors are very talented.
It is as if they are not acting. I felt like I am there and they both are real persons
What a wonderful film! No distracting and manipulative music or camera-play - just dialogue and raw intimacy. Thank you for this!
There is SO MUCH crammed into this short film. It begins and ends with her "I want what I want" wedding plans, which is fine, okay, but a hint to her character. She's "busy," as she apparently was when they were together (and got promoted; the busy-ness paid off). She wanted her coffee to go; had to be persuaded to stay. His first question is about her mom! He's thoughtful. Asks if she's happy; she cannot say. He has grown. He's grounded and practical: working for his dad--not what he wanted. Stopped smoking (we'll learn why). He's become the man she'd wanted. She's settling because she wants what she wants now.
Beautiful insight !
Love it! I agree
@CliveNDerek No, you are twisting things around, like a typical chauvinist. He is the one who wanted everything his way, as he says himself - 'when they make you feel guilty for doing EVERYTHING that you like'! Everybody cannot do EVERYTHING that they like and expect the other person to be accommodative to all YOUR desires alone. There should be give and take. She wanted a family and he didn't, till he met the other woman. Now, he's gone ahead with that. That's nothing but hypocrisy. Having selfishly gone gallivanting and screwed with her feelings, now he's got the cheek to ask her to sit down with him for coffee and wants to know if she is really happy! No, duh, thanks to YOU!!
What is wrong with being a 'busy' professional? Or is it wrong only when a woman is that? You don't at all sound like the jealous kind, pish!!
As a man, I blame the woman for having sat down with him at all. She should have flung the coffee in his face if he insisted, by so much as touching her. She needn't even have set eyes on his girl - she brought it upon herself.
He's kind of an ASS for ot telling Alicia what should be the most important news in his life. Instead, she gets HIT with it.
Superb. You can feel the longing.The heartbreak when she saw that his new lover was pregnant is palpable.
Overwelming.
I don't get how people who watch this incredible short film can affirm the intentions, feelings, personnalities of the characters with such assertivity. What is extraordinary in this film is that it reflects the complexity of life, without giving "answers". Each of us can project their own vision of the situation, and nobody is right or wrong. It's brilliant because it's so opened and true. No necessity to judge one or the other. Complexity of life. So many questions without answers.
So many answers, without questions.
How heartbreaking. The what could have been. Oh I've been there. Such pain.
I could watch them act for hours. Those eyes spoke more than words. They were beyond perfection. Impeccable 🥺 It's one of those short films that I will keep coming back to ❤️ It felt realistic to the core with such a beautiful song. Endless list of subtleties that were well put together in this film deserves an applause 👏🏻
This movie deserves an Oscar. Great script and acting.
It WAS really good.
Agreed. Exceptional on so many levels.
WOW ! What a tear jerker. Had a moment like that in my life. Devastating. But Life goes on as the cliche says and here I am 36 years later. Thank you for the film !!!
Here bawling my eyes out. That hug. I've been there before. I could feel it. They did an amazing job! I loved this short. It made me remember how much I want that feeling again. That loving connection.
Oh please, lol.
Ignore that comment , everyone wants what you said , they just may not be able to face it . I long for the same , a true , deep love , shared both ways with the love of my life ! Forever .
The Dahlia's are out of season... Such a nice touch, wraps up the whole film in a single phrase.
Especially so if we think of what dahlia flowers symbolize, ie. commitment to someone or something... They're also associated with steadfastness, due to their ability to bloom after many other flowers have died...
Both the actress and the actor deserve a great recognition. They express every suitability of emotions in such a moving way!
at least one night, love night
I hope someday this can be a full length movie. It felt so real. Those actors are really good, they put their whole heart into this. Thank you.❤
the direction
Whoever is reading this from video's side. I can't express in words how i felt through the entire film. I cant understand spanish but still i felt every single moment of this. The lady who played alicia had my heart. The entire time, her acting , I cant define in words. Alicia was trying to hold the tears from the beginning and that hug t end , all this made me so emotional . I can't stop myself from rewatching it again and again. I have watched it 5 times since yesterday.
Hats off to the makers.
Man, you should marry her.
@@AryanSingh-bj6vy Whereas you shouldn’t get married at all.
@@lizziebkennedy7505 Works for me.
calm down
@@Answersonapostcard yeah man 😂 I am calm already.
The actors ...They blew my mind.No words can describe how they expressed the feelings! Brilliant acting ! I think we only begin to realise how much we loved someone after losing them.
And that , like many things in life , you never get over , you just learn how to live with it . Life is hard , love is even harder , true , genuine love should come quite easy . That’s how you know .
I think the power in these short films is in what is NOT said, that underpinning layer says much more than words could express! Kudos
I can’t believe I just stumbled across this video through YT recommendation and cried after watching it. It hits me. They are so natural that it doesn’t even look like they’re acting at all. Love it.💜
I really felt this. I'm Alicia, totally in doing mode (when I was younger) and believing happiness is something I can create.
It's fabulous the way he looks at her throughout this film. Kudos to the actors.
The best kind of acting: restrained and honest. I, too, love the way he looks at her.
Yup - his eyes...
Yes - we think we will make the marriage work. We just have to change him a little and change ourselves a little and it will all work out …
Los amores de la juventud que se escapan y reencuentran.... Menos mal que me fui lejos....
Those eyes and the hug speaks louder than words omg felt so real, great acting
I don't believe I seen better acting than that of Alexa Jimenez as Alicia. I watched in awe, how, in the course of 12 or so minutes, every nuance of of the slow 'disrobing' of Alicia's emotions is miraculously uncovered for us. Just as in a Chekhov story, in her performance, a whole lifetime is distilled into a passing moment. In the dramatic honesty of her mobile expressions we can trace her transition from hopeful past, pregnant present, and disconsolate future and read it like a book, sheer acting artistry. She is ably counterpointed by Daniel Grao, as Javi
Beautifully put!
Alicia isn't pregnant.
Could you please share the title of Chekhov's story you're referring to here?
Thanks.
Have never seen such an emotional hug in a movie or anything..
The worst feeling in the world. To feel like it was you who wasnt good enough.
That's one way to look at it. Or, it confirms his continued Peter Pan attitude toward life. He wants to travel the world, hot girl on his side, no responsibilities. But, if that doesn't work out Daddy's there to bail him out. You know that pregnancy was unplanned. Let's hope he's able to finally man up. But given how quick he was to take the ex-GF's hand says otherwise. I hope the ex-GF continues to stay strong and know that, as much as she loved him, he would not make her happy.
Exactly! That's the first thing I thought, he's willing to make moves on his ex WHILE he has a pregnant, live-in girlfriend. Alicia dodged a bullet.
I don’t feel it’s that at all, it’s a question of timing. He wasn’t ready, didn’t know what he was losing and let her go. Now pregnancy happened to him and sadly not with the person he now realized he wanted. He clearly loves his ex still but she moved on and he has responsibilities now and is taking them seriously, it doesn’t mean he’s a bad person if he took his ex’s hand, come on. What is sad is that you know, in the long run, they both probably won’t be happy and will always have regrets. Doing the « right thing » comes at a price but you should own your choices when children are involved.
As someone who gave up everything creative I wanted for my first husband including living around the world, I applaud the guy in this for knowing what he wanted to do, even when the woman criticized him. I divorced my ex who wanted a simple life and now I'm married to someone who's compatible with me. And we've lived all over the world and we're both creatives. I'm 1000 times happier. I wish I'd had the courage to stand against everyone who thinks life has to be lived "normal" and followed who I really am. I could have saved myself a decade of misery.
But in this guy's case, he wishes he could have had his adventures and this woman who, clearly, wasn't a good match for him.
Great short story and so full of emotion. well done to the actors. Alicia comes across as a woman who is driven and has goals and good on her for wanting to strive for things in her life. Javi is a free spirit who wants to travel with no responsibilities and wanted to be a writer which is all well and good but that needs money. If they did marry and have kids, their relationship will not have survived as they are two different people with very different goals in life. They tried but they were not able to compromise so was best to move on and find partners who are more compatible. Life is made of up of compromises and nothing is ever going to be 100% perfect. You have to weigh up what you are prepared to compromise on to be happy. There is no point in committing to someone, no matter how much you love them, if the compromises/sacrifices are too high a price to pay. There is a fine line between love and hate.
I was this woman once and made my choice between the irresponsible love of my life who'd kill for me but couldn't get a job - and a much less romantic but reliable and grounded man. 20 years and 3 kids later, am I crazily happy? No, but it's what you call an good ordinary life. Would I have been happy with the first one? I doubt very much. After all, you need so much more than puppy love to build a family. We all make choices in life, and that one was the hardest for me. I did the right thing but I certainly miss the pure happiness of my youth which I shared with the love of my life. PS. He never married.
I was in the man's situation in this scenario. And I did marry the person who didn't want the adventure, and I was miserable for ten years. We both were. I finally divorced him and I'm now married to a man who is creative and adventurous. We are both artists and work freelance. We have lived together all over the world and haven't rented a proper house in years because we house sit other people's mansions. It's a wonderful life and I'm so much happier. But I understand that when people want a traditional life and children, that's a completely different desire.
I never wanted those things. And security isn't my top concern. Living life passionately is what I want. And I feel so blessed to have someone who sees life the same way. And just because people are artists or creative does not mean they are poor and unable to live a beautiful life. We have everything we need and we don't have to sell our souls at a 9 to 5 job to have it.
❤
When you get blind-sided like this, it breaks your heart all over again. Maybe you never really get over it but you just move on because you must.
Yes , you learn to live with it , that’s all !
It's a good movie. A good reflection of real life. It is a blessing when one can have a proper closure at a time when the pain of break up feels so strong. Two years had gone by and the girl still had grieving to do, letting go of the past. Good job, Javi, for recognizing that and not letting the awkwardness of a situation get in the way of a good closure hug. Well done, NITV !
Ever move, each bit by bit look truly original . Incredible acting . My Salute to the entire team.
She was stunned to see that he was having a family with another woman. The very thing she wanted with him. Yet they still loved each other. Exceptional acting.
I can't believe that this short film touched me so much. This tension between them was almost touchable through the table. Her emotions of seeing someone who you loved and who wasn't ready to do smth for you, but got ready to do it for another person.
I know it's silly but, wish there was a world where we could love the one we were meant to.
It is not silly at all,the man I was engaged to left 5 years 3 weeks 6 days ago and was left to pick up the pieces of my life ..I loved him ,simply loved him....but it was not enough...
Hello, I can only speak for myself...growing up it was never spoken/shown in my family. I did not know that exhisted until I was in my 30s. By then I had been married 14 years, had 2 children. I met a fellow volunteer, we joined for very different reasons. He was also in a bad marriage. For 3 years we were friends. Then we were both divorced. Then, we were together for the 25 of the happiest years of our lives! So...there is alway a chance!raf
I wanted that too. I gave my life over to Jesus Christ. Because He's the only one that can heal damaged hearts. I prayed too. And He gave me a faithfull wife. Nothing better than let Jesus Christ decide what should happen on your life.
@@robertafatur7881 hey roberta hope you are doing well, i just wanted to ask if you guys are still together after 25 years ? I know its been a while since Left this comment but it wasn't clear from comment as to what is the current state of both of your relationship. Take Care !
i lost the love of my life. He quickly moved on and found someone else. hell even i found someone else. Im happy. I adore my now boyfriend. But nothing compares to what i felt before. This movie is amazing. Its so well made. its seriously messing me up, even after i thought i'd be ok now.
Exactly my thoughts! You’re not alone!
He's not the love of your life...
The love of my life is getting married on saturday. we both moved on...but...are we truly happy? I never loved anyone like i loved him. this movie messed me up too... but i keep thinking life goes on, and it was probably not meant to be.
@@isiweez5520 Sorry to hear about your heartbreak. I hope you find a good love yourself.
Then you don’t love your current boyfriend.
Preciosa y potente. Ambos actores están maravillosos pero Alexandra sobresale con maestría. El dolor al ver a la nueva novia embarazada se ha reflejado a la perfección en su mirada. Ese abrazo al final refleja tanto los sentimientos pasados (el hecho de que ella le abrace más fuerte, que le huela el cuello aspirando su aroma como recordándole...) como le da a ella la oportunidad de cerrar una puerta que, a mi parecer aún estaba entreabierta. En mi opinión, por mucho que él ahora esté en esa etapa que ella le demandaba dos años atrás, su relación no hubiera durado por mucho amor (que se palpa) se tuvieran. Para que una pareja salga adelante no solo tiene que haber amor, sino también compartir valores y formas de ver la vida y ellos no lo hacía. Solo espero que si fuera la vida real ella terminase de llorarlo y, por fin, pasase página y fuera feliz con su futuro marido. Bravo, bravísimo!!!
No creo que cerrara nada, de hecho lo expresa en su proxima llamada, llena de frustracion y desconsolada, pero si fue tal como dices cada detale cuetna pero esa parte asi la vi.
Su marido solo cubre un pasado, no es feliz en esa relaicion solo sigue adelante sin haber dejado atras... y no es solo amor, es compresion y pasciencia, creo que eso le falto a ambos. Tal vez en aquella ocasion no, pero si se esperaban podria ser...
From the acting, directing, camera angles, to the editing, this beautiful short flim draws me in and kept me there. When it is over, it almost felt like i have intrude into a person's private moment. An absolute masterpiece!
Agree 100%! It’s a gem!
Impressive - tell kind of a lifetime story in just a few minutes.
Such short film they gave their best. Both are beautiful actor
This was v. v. good - like a film from an earlier time - when human relationships and society were real - the writing, the acting, the expressions the actors allow themselves to give, (Javi's eyes are extraordinary in the emotions they convey), I would have done a less predictable ending except for the great last phone call, but very impressive, excellent work by all, it gives me hope for film again - thank you to whoever directed this lovely little gem.
that was incredible! so heart wrenchingly beautiful!! so impactful! Wow!! incredible actors...the bittersweetness so visceral! Well done!!!!!!!!
Cannot beat this film!!! So much captured in less than 15 minutes, in less than 50 feet, in less than two hands touching and one hug. Few visible tears under an ocean of years of heartache both two years and the future!!!!
The real partner is the one who helps you find yourself. That partner may come disguised as a person, or as a talent such as writing. But in the end, to find oneself is the real love we are looking for. And it's the only love we can share.
So beautiful, thanks !
A lost a love! It happened with me, and I can assure, it is not easy. I´ve never stopped to think about her. Yes, it has more than 2 years, and I think about her every single day. That`s my life, that`s my burden!
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😭😭😭😭😭
That doesn't sound healthy. There are ways to move beyond the pain of regret and lost love so it doesn't consume your thoughts on a daily basis.
I am going to set a goal to watch more of these I get more out of them. Sometimes I spend 2 hours on a film and am either disappointed, disgusted, confused or nonplussed. This was great.
I am learning Spanish. This film has gave me so much motivation to keep learning. It’s such a amazing tale of heartache and shows a potential love that could’ve been and should’ve been. The hug spoke a million words without a single syllable leaving their mouths. I needed this film right mow
I just got absorbed into their acting and the story. Loved every bit of it.
An evocative short film. Life doesn’t move on it simply pauses in the hope you reunite. It’s our fragile ego and fear that stops us making the move towards something that makes sense to our hearts but not our minds. Why settle for imperfection when you let perfect escape? I think that’s why so many divorce in later life perhaps resuming something they lost in the frenetic pace of their youth. Maybe that’s the unwritten ending of this short.
Love does not simply go away, and seeing again the one we felt for deeply, is upsetting.
Life is so unfair to Alicia all she ever wanted was to have a family with the love of her life but he wasn't ready. After 2 years they meet again and it looks like he is going to be having a family first. . . Obviously they still love each other . . . my heart breaks for Alicia.
He still doesn’t want to have kids. I feel sorry for his new partner. He is a very immature person and will never grow up.
Why would he start a family and get divorce after 7,8 years and will lose child custody,half of his asset's,also have to pay child support,all feminist and anti men laws are the reasons that why men don't get married in western societies.
@@MALINKAAM he's not immature he's doing ok,if I was living in western society I will never ever marry or have childrens bcz I know all marriage laws favour women and men get raped by so called family court system.
@hi not really. She just got pregnant coz she wanted without asking him. They had a passionate sex and it happened. Men do not think of protection, a woman always thinks about it. Alicia was too much of a nice girl, trying to convince him to have a family, rather than just get pregnant.
@@kasiatokarz7230 Feel so too. But some man needs a bit push.individual differently. Life is a probability game.
I have watched several of these short stories and have wanted the to go on for hours... the stories from Ireland are gems 💚
Wow…what a great short film. I recommend this very highly. Great acting. You can really feel the emotions so strongly.
Splendidly done, and truly a heartbreaker. Superb actors, both characters. The good bye just tore me to pieces.
When life really messes up, you need an excuse to cry ! Even unavailable Dahlias would do!
Spot on.
You said it..... beautifully
Dahlias are the funeral flowers. We always bring Dahlias at the funerals. I am an Orthodox Christian. I've prayed to GOD for a long, long time to give me the grace to move on and let go of my past. This extraordinary short movie just helped me do that. How MERCIFUL is our GOD. HE never abandons his children. HE listens to our prayers. All GLORY to GOD ALMIGHTY in all eternity. Amen! 🙏❤🕊
@@loredanababuci4700 - Blech! 🤮You Christians - always thinking it's necessary due to your training (and brain-washing from childhood) to "spread the _imaginary garbage"_ - er, _"gospel,"_ in forums where it's irrelevant and inappropriate to do so.
well said...
That hug got me. I just had that kind of hug with my best friend who I'm so in love with but know I can't have. She is gone visiting family and won't be back for a little while. Our last night together has been replaying in my mind for about a week. This short film is so good. So much said with expressions and minimal dialog.
So much emotion in this little gem of a film! The acting was impeccable and brilliant! Hope to see more of them again! Felicitaciones a todos que contribuyeron a esta linda película. Me encanto! 👏🏼✨💕
Brilliantly short film The couple should have got back together at the end though.. I don't like sad endings 😥
@@garyschneider8829 It was gut-wrenching, wasn't it? There are many decent sequel options that could make that happy ending happen!
Wie kann man so herausragend Gefühle darstellen? Unglaubliche Schauspieler. Tragische Geschichte. ❤️
This movie broke my heart. Great acting.
I cried, I feel the same elusive feeling
You want it but you cannot hold it
Perhaps something is missing, it is not for you although you think about it all the time
Complicated ❤️ ❤️
I came across the film by accident. What a gem! It is perfect in every component and detail: dialogues, timing, duration, and above all - the acting! So real and so painful! I watched it several times in a row.
One of the best love stories film I have seen
The memory of this short movie can't be erased ever from my memory ever. Great actors and good materiel.
What a incredible acting!. Alexandra Jimenez is stunning.
great short movie, great long history in our lives
Esta actriz se merece un Oscar.
La actriz y el actor son increíbles
Pues deberías verla en su faceta de actriz cómica. Es incluso mejor si cabe 👍 .Te recomiendo "Spanish movie" y "Super López "
although a short film, its impact is as long as a monumental movie... excellent acting...
Fabulous acting! They deserve the Oscar!!
La actriz qué interpreta a Alicia merece un Oscar!!!
I have seen this short film way before it came out on RUclips countless times. The acting is nothing short of perfection. The story touched a deep unhealed wound in my heart. The one I wanted but will never have. 😔
_The one that got away._ 💔❤🩹
@@wholeshebang1 Exactly! I always wanted it to be him! Life takes you in different paths, but theres that one person you never forget.
The actress playing Alicia was phenomenal
How painful it is to know that you can never be with the one you truly love the most.
To think that one can become totally devastated after seeing a 13 minute film is beyond my ability to understand. I want to see the entire story from beginning to end‼️💔
Yes!! EXACTLY!! You put it so well!!!
ive been devasted in 3:45
Very touching film. with fantastic actors. Both still love each other and both suffer from not making it to a life together.
She still loves him very much. The sadness for their "lost" love happiness is unmistakably shown at 8:40. Both will love each other for the rest of their lives, the last embrace shows that very clearly.
Best short film I’ve seen . Really moved me. Great acting great little storyline. Had me hooked
Life is always a compromise, and very often our first true love teaches us that, but not until we’ve lost it. Only then, after living with the heartache are we experienced enough to make a mature choice, which he was finally capable of doing. They were each other’s teachers and first loves, and what an important role they each played for the other.
As so beautifully played by the actor, he was clearly a good man, and would make his new love happy. She clearly IS happy.
And Alicia IS planning her dream wedding…with someone else. It’s a lovely story of love never being lost even when life has other plans for us.
How well said!
I feel she still loves Javi profoundly, and not so much the one she is marrying. Especially when reunited with the emotions she has for Javi. That frozen smile melts away as she falls apart and the feelings flow out of her. Does she really care about dahlias? Will she cry at her wedding with the one she doesn't really love. She needs to fill her live with something.
Beautiful... Some conversation are to heal the old wounds after addresssing them
Wow
So powerful
and, yes, incredible acting.
Thank you for this beautiful film.
Wonderful film, I think almost everyone has had these moments, sadly.
Very true to real life. Almost a documentary. The story is very realistic by itself, and the acting is incredible!
My god, magic. And the music. Thanks a much for sharing. ❤️🙏👏
Wow. This film was quite something. ;) And that hug at the end told everything. End of a relationship, it was time to say good bye. Oh, my Lord! ;)
Powerful!! Speak to many broken hearts. Some pain is easily resurrected under surprising circumstances.
I felt my life in that hug...
“I don’t care it’s not their season” is the sentence.
I was waiting for him to tell her when he ran after her that the baby the woman carried wasn't his, and he loved Alicia and wanted to be with her and they would walk away together. 😭🥰 School and parents sometimes doesn't teach us to know how to be , it just is!!! Lost love rarely returns. But, if it does heal your hearts, and love that person with 150%!!! Shout from the mountain tops the overwhelming joy that you both have. Life is short! You may only have a deep passionate love come 3x in life, if your very just one time.
That was so good….it just wasn’t their season…timing is everything
Just like all the actors I see in these NITV shorts - completely convincing, totally in the characters. Outstanding performances.
Fantastic acting! It is true life ,,everybody has regrets .
And that's why I love the film Closer, a real lovestory. Because we are lost in moments where we take most of times wrong decisions that send us away from the people who we truly love. And we keep going adjusting to realities that seems to we chose but were most of the times a way to escape from ourselves from the misery of not having what we really wanted because we took it for granted.
@@v3r0nthego you are absolutely right 👍 that Is the reason why it called story, I mean love story ❤
i think my soulmate might have passed
ok that hug made me cry❤️
I felt this deeply. What wonderful writing and acting.
Just spent an hour trawling through Damien Rice songs…I need to learn Spanish. The song is “Fragility” by The Trees, as it says in the credits. Great film and music.
Just fabulous wow 🤩 tears rolling down my face … tremendous actors 🤩
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