Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
A retired academic teacher tries to find the love of his youth after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Live Twice, Love Once is a Spanish dramedy that follows a familiar template — aging protagonist, Alzheimer's diagnosis, family reconciliation — but elevates it through genuinely warm and committed performances, particularly from Oscar Martínez as the cantankerous retired professor. The emotional beats land with sincerity rather than manipulation. Cinematography is functional and pleasant without being distinctive. The premise, while executed with care, treads well-worn ground in the genre of late-life memory loss dramas, limiting its novelty score. The ending provides satisfying emotional closure without being especially surprising or transcendent.