What We Wanted to Be

The Argentine romance What We Wanted to Be (Lo que quisimos ser, 2024) is worth a watch online on iFILM. For years, a man and a woman keep meeting on Fridays in the same café, telling each other who they'd have become if real life hadn't gotten in the way of their dreams.

It starts outside a movie theater and carries on at that café table, where a shared love of cinema draws the two together. At every meeting they choose to live the lives they imagined rather than the ones they were handed. Imagination keeps winning out over the everyday — until the question of what's actually real can no longer be put off. Eleonora Wexler and Luis Rubio play the leads, directed by Alejandro Agresti.

It's an intimate, 84-minute two-hander built almost entirely on conversation — one for viewers who love quiet Argentine cinema about roads not taken and the selves we rewrite in our heads. No big twists, just a wistful tenderness toward everything missed. Stream What We Wanted to Be (2024) online on iFILM.