Through My Window movie storyline. Raquel is madly and irrevocably in love with Ares, her attractive and mysterious neighbour. The thing is, she has watched him from afar because, much to her dismay, they haven’t exchanged a single word. But Raquel has a very clear mission: to make Ares fall in love with her. However, she is not an innocent, helpless girl and she is certainly not prepared to lose everything to achieve her goal, most importantly not herself.
Raquel (Clara Galle) starts narrating the story of her life. In a classroom, we see her refusing to read her assignment as even though she knows how to write a story, she isn’t brave enough to tell it. She then says that her story doesn’t start in this classroom, it actually starts in her house.
Her house, as she describes, is a humble abode that, through ups and downs, ended up surrounded by an empire called the Hidalgo mansion. The Hidalgos are her next-door neighbors, but their lifestyle is completely different from hers. The Hidalgos own Alpha 3, one of the most influential companies in the country, whose headquarters is the most spectacular building in Barcelona.
Film Review for Through My Window
The Hidalgo Brothers Trilogy, by Venezuelan Ariana Godoy, which exploits all the clichés of the new adult genre, became a success first on the Wattpad platform and then in paper format when Penguin Random House acquired the rights to publish it. The trilogy follows a similar strategy to The Bridgertons: focusing each book on a different member of a family. Now Netflix is turning the first of them into a film, Through My Window, directed by the Spanish Marçal Forés.
The plot, a succession of common places to build a story of love and hate, focuses on Raquel (Clara Galle), a middle-class teenager who lives in Barcelona while she is in her last year of high school. The young woman has a great interest in Ares (Julio Peña), son of a wealthy family who lives in a mansion next to her modest house. Ares has two more male brothers and they were all called by the names of different Greek gods, without much knowledge about them, because, although the two older brothers are named after Apollo and Ares, the third is named after Artemis, who was really the goddess of the hunt.
For years, Raquel collected, in an unhealthy and obsessive way, all information about Ares. He systematically watches him through his window, but cannot start a conversation with him. Everything changes when she discovers that he stole her WiFi key and accessed her computer’s hard drive. Both young people begin to interact and end up developing a relationship that is as toxic as it is harmful.
A priori in Through My Window (2022) nothing is too complex, rather everything is schematic. There is a certain laziness in its technical realization, where everything works based on the vertigo of a soundtrack of pop songs, but that contributes nothing to a narrative framework that is otherwise flat, empty and banal, lacking in subtlety and ambiguity. All the clichés of its American namesakes are recreated point by point no matter what.
Although, to be fair, the real problem faced by a cheap film, which aims (and promises) nothing more than passatism (or pathos) by showing the marked bodies of its two protagonists who manage to come out naked every time that the script allows it (or not), lies in the excessive justification and glorification of a series of violent and harmful behaviors within a toxic love relationship that are approached with an inadmissible “normality” for these times and to add insult to injury vindicated. in its sweetened “new romantic” ending.
Through My Window (2022)
A través de mi Ventana
Directed by: Marçal Forés
Starring: Clara Galle, Julio Peña, Guillermo Lasheras, Natalia Azahara, Hugo Arbues, Eric Masip, Pilar Castro, Rachel Lascar, Emilia Lazo, Lucía de la Puerta, Marià Casals, Sylvia Parejo
Screenplay by: Ariana Godoy, Eduard Sola
Production Design by: Jose Tirado
Cinematography by: Elías M. Félix
Film Editing by: Verónica Callón
Set Decoration by: Ana Pons-Formosa
Art Direction by: Jaume Archs Roca
Music by: Andreas Gutuen Aaser
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: NetflixR
elease Date: February 4, 2022
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