I found Through My Window to be a perfectly good version of one of these: a straight forward romance film. Not a romantic comedy but a blunt, forthright torrid romance. Unapologetically a romance.

The film stars a cute newcomer (Clara Galle) as a good girl (I guess) who is harassed and bothered by pretty-bad-boy neighbor (Julio Pena) who wants nothing more than to steal her Wi-Fi. He’s a jackass and treats her like human garbage so, of course, they fall in love. But he’s rich and she’s not and there’s drama.

I was reasonably engaged in this romance once I got over my casual annoyance at the bad boy trope. I didn’t find their dialog and situations nearly as cringey as the one in the (somehow ongoing) Before We Fell series or 50 Shades. It’s not super mature but it’s not played for jokes or abundant melodrama.

It’s also full of some pretty explicit sex… so this one is not meant for the kids. It raises the maturity level of the film even if everyone here is still in high school (most assuredly everyone is 18, no doubt). It helps they are actually erotic and not perfunctory or full of false modesty.

The movie almost self-destructs due to a really contrived medical emergency ending that’s, among other things, really poorly edited. But it pulls out of the nose-dive since it doesn’t take up too much screen time. At least it wasn’t an overly extended misunderstanding break-up ending.

I felt that the movie worked reasonably well for me. I wasn’t bored and I was engaged.

Score: 76