Finding attractive ways to tell stories is becoming more and more complex in today’s world where new things are lost in the algorithmic nature streaming. And at the same time, this original pretension often takes on excessive topicality, eclipsing – or rather overstating – the background of plots that actually repeat the usual patterns. Thus, in the futile present of a purely aesthetic and usually tendentious fictional consumption, the arrival tomorrow of The new years Movistar+ represents an extraordinary dissection of form and substance in the world of relationships. Because among other things, the novelty of Rodrigo Sorogoyen is part of the series more lucid and comforting which were seen on the small screen in 2024.
Winner of six Goya awards and with a enviable filmography For any national filmmaker, this is not the first time that the talent of the Madrid native behind the cameras has been noticed in a series format. Well, in 2020 he already left us speechless by capturing the crime thriller riot police. At that time, critics were already praising the staging and the tension of this group of police officers trying to survive among corruption and de facto powers, praising it as a television production of unusual quality for our audiovisual industry. Today, Sorogoyen conquers us again accompanied by two co-creators, Paula Fabra and Sara Canoin a carousel of nostalgic ellipses where each chapter of this fiction represents New Year’s Eve of a leading couple.
“New Year”: love is celebrated
Boy meets girl, girl asks boy out, a problem separates them and in the epiphany of their love, one last kiss seals their fate. Yes, this is essentially the diagram from which the 90% of comedies and “dramas” romantics we’ve seen in the industry. However, The new years As fiction, it is not expressed in a common way, even if its unfolding of events seems paradoxically close and realistic to us. Because temporary omission From his starting point, he recreates himself in the silences and shared spaces of his dinners, parties and shared hangovers. And finally, because Sorogoyen and his team know very intelligently that the last day of the year animates feelings and confessionsawakening the latent conflicts of routine. A narrative engine where the direction of the actors instills the truth in everyone answer, look and toast.
The official synopsis introduces us to Ana, a thirty-year-old woman whose future is still unresolved, and Oscar, another 30-year-old whose life is practically centered. The two sides of an antagonistic coin ready to tackle a relationship that will encompass 10 years. That is to say each of the chapters that make up the series.
The new years works like a retrospective of daily lifebreaking the formal language in each division of the story with the appearance of different couples who are exposed in documentary form to the gaze of the protagonistsby listening to what each other has to say about themselves and by being, in the same way, witnesses to the conjunctural anatomy of the sentimental beginnings and endings of any romantic bond. However, beyond this specific break in each episode, the Movistar + series is an intimate treatment of the course of time through wounds and hugs, always looking to the future, but with the past weighing on its back.
Also note, as in any profession of person responsible for like animals And the kingdomwe find an immeasurable cast led by Iria del Rio (The incredible waning weekend) And Francesco Carril (The deceived). They are the alpha and the omega, shaping characters who, because of their accidental birth, seem intended to meet. She was the first girl born in her year and he was the last born in the previous one. Thus, each New Year’s Eve, in addition to being the annual farewell of the calendar, represents their respective birthdays and of course the date they met.
When will it be available?
After its theatrical release, the first series of five chapters will arrive tomorrow, the day November 28exclusively for the transmission service owned by Telefónica. Unfortunately, to know the vital outcome of the relationship between Ana and Óscar, we will have to wait a little longer. After a few more weeks of theatrical screening, the last five episodes of The new years They will land on the platform December 12thus completing the mini-series produced by Sorogoyen’s own label, Caballo Films and by French production company Arte France.
