The Last Romantics

• David Pérez Sañudo
• 106 min
• Spain
• 2024
• Fiction

A lonely, quirky paper mill worker with a fantasy friend and signs of obsessive-compulsive behavior is forced to take control of her life in a melancholic drama from the grey, misty Basque Country.

Irune has stayed in the apartment she shared with her mother. When she’s not handling toilet paper at the dull factory, she sorts through her neighbors' mail for advertisements, performs her dance ritual, and calls RENFE to ask about train schedules for trains she'll never take. Sometimes she spends time with a kind neighbour woman, who has a cruel and violent son. When a lump in her breast coincides with a conflict at work, her balance is disrupted and her life takes an unexpected turn. David Pérez Sañudo blends harsh reality with fantasy and deeply touches the audience with a profoundly human story about a society filled with uncertainty, loneliness, and a lack of solidarity. And Miren Gaztañaga (from Netflix's The Platform) is wonderful as the odd, lovable Irune.

- Camilla Larsson

• Drama
• Relationer
• Samhälle
• Kärlek
• Politik