Come As You Are

Come As You Are (Hasta la Vista, 2011) is a Belgian tragicomedy from director Geoffrey Enthoven that you can watch online on iFILM. Three friends in their late twenties love wine and women — though the second part has always stayed out of reach.

Each has his reason. One is blind, one uses a wheelchair, and the third is paralysed from the neck down. Passing the trip off as a wine tour through the Spanish vineyards, they set out on the adventure of their lives: to reach Spain and finally sleep with a woman. A brusque caretaker signs on to drive them, with little idea what she has agreed to.

What opens as a cheeky road comedy about sex tourism becomes a frank, unsentimental film about the right to an ordinary life. It collected audience prizes on the festival circuit and later earned a Hollywood remake, Come As You Are (2019). The poster jokes "Hasta la vista, virginity!" — yet the film lands somewhere far more honest. Stream Come As You Are (2011) online on iFILM.