Through My Window: Across the Sea Parent Guide

Shortly after Ares (Julio Peña Fernañdez) begins a whirlwind romance with Raquel (Clara Galle), he decides to leave Spain and attend medical school in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Raquel is a student in Barcelona, so the young couple decide to have a long-distance relationship. Maintaining a relationship across Europe is tricky and when Ares has an opportunity to go back to Spain for a long weekend, he jumps at the chance. But being reunited doesn’t automatically produce perfect bliss: there’s some awkwardness and unspoken secrets seeping through the couple’s time together. Perhaps their relationship isn’t what either thought it was.

I did not see the first film in this series, but I did read the Wikipedia plot summary, so I think I’m caught up and I don’t think I missed much. Every single character in this story is insufferable. They are all spoiled rich kids messing around with no regard for anyone but themselves. I wasn’t rooting for the central romance because I don’t care about either of the characters. I couldn’t figure out the point of this movie since all I could see was a bunch of annoying people generating meaningless melodrama.

The way this movie is structured is also weird. There are one or two scenes, followed by a montage sequence, and then the pattern repeats. If you remove all the montages this production would be half the length, which is not an unwelcome outcome. In addition to being bloated, the film is extremely dark. Not tonally, but literally. I’m not sure if that’s a Netflix technical problem or an intentional cinematographic choice, but I had my laptop brightness up all the way and there were many scenes where I had no idea what was happening because I couldn’t see anything.

With multiple sex scenes, nudity, swearing, and alcohol and drug use, I can’t recommend this film for teens. I also can’t recommend it for adults because it’s boring, annoying, and has nothing to offer aside from gratuitous close-up shots of very attractive people. And they’re not attractive enough to justify sitting through this slog.