A boy named Ramiro (Oriol Vila) attempts to forget a girl called Andrea (Bárbara Lennie) , with whom he had a deep love relationship . But this past story is far from forget . This situation is difficult to bear , especially when the girl just separated comes back again in each of the memories of his life and he feels that "all the love songs talk about me" . The memoirs of his girl come once again , associated with his past and future experiences . Along the way , Ramiro works in his uncle's (Ramon Fontserè) bookshop.
This sad and candorous movie simply reflects on something that seems to have been lost in the world of cinema : melancholy and unselfconsciousness . The nostalgia that is suffered when looking back and not forward . It is an honest and unpretentious film full of freshness and naturality , but really boring at times, which moves us with a sincerity and genuinenessness to which we are unfortunately not accustomed . And that, therefore , clashes with the times. This is a difficult story of a boy who tries to forget a girl, especially because she, from whom he has just separated, returns to his memory once again. This situation reaches such a point that the boy has the feeling that all his love songs are about her . Trueba builds some decent story and surrounds it with protagonists throwing here and there some brooding and thoughtful sentences . And that the subject begins well, with courage and intelligence enough , betting on a directing style that is not original but at least different for what comes to be Spanish cinema: close-ups , fixed camera, some elegant movements . The actors are not terrible in almost any case , but their characters are poorly written. Everything is so artificial , it is so faked , that in the end it works more as a parody than as a generational portrait of the last generation that communicated by means of written letter , being subsequently
mobile phone and Whatsapp , the new means of communication and relations among us . As for the direction , Jonás opts for long shots framed with great intention and sentiment , in which he lets his roles speak and be themselves , achieving fine and realistic performances. A strong point of the film is the secondary characters, which are used as a humorous counterpoint, and that's why the humor is constantly dropped despite the sensitivity of the main story . The cast , formed mostly by unknown actors , giving natural interpretations , such as Oriol Vila , Ramon Fontserè, Ángela Cremonte, Bruno Bergonzini , Valeria Alonso , Daniel Castro , standing out the always great Bárbara Lennie and brief acting by Eloy Azorín and Miriam Giovanelli.
The motion picture was originally written and directed by Jonás Trueba and it won a number of awards and nominations . Jonás was born in 1981 in Madrid , and he's son of Cristina Huete and the great filmmaker Fernando Trueba , the latter has made notorious films such as Opera Prima, Sal Gorda, La reina de España , Too Much , El artista y la modelo , Belle Epoque , Sueño del Mono Loco , Chico y Rita , many of them following the style of the "comedia madrileña" and he had major success with Sé infiel y no mires con quién . While his son Jonás Trueba is a new writer and director , known for La virgen de agosto (2019), La reconquista (2016) and Los ilusos (2013) . And this Every Song Is About Me or Todas las canciones hablan de mí (2010) that results to be mediocre and boring picture , rating : 4.5/10 .
