Mallorca was already making it difficult for Ry to stick to the safe life she had planned.
Then Julián took her out on a boat.
Prime Video has released a new clip from The Last Sunrise, spotlighting one of the romantic drama’s most important moments between Oriah “Ry” Pera and local fisherman Julián García.
Played by Maia Reficco and Fernando Lindez, the pair have spent much of the movie circling one another through arguments, chance encounters and an increasingly obvious attraction.
The new clip captures the point where that tension finally becomes something neither can pretend is casual anymore.
Their date takes them out onto the Mediterranean, away from the expectations and secrets waiting for both of them back on land.
Julián is completely at home there.
Mallorca is not a holiday destination to him.
It is the place where he grew up, where his family works and where almost every part of his identity has been formed.
Ry arrives from a very different world.
She has come to Mallorca with her mother, Isolde, played by Eva Longoria, for what is supposed to be a temporary summer stay.
But temporary begins to feel increasingly complicated once Julián enters the picture.
During the boat scene, the two talk about exactly that.
Julián reflects on the life his family has built on the island and the idea that happiness does not necessarily require constantly searching for something bigger.
For Ry, the conversation lands much harder than he realises.
Her entire life has been shaped by uncertainty.
She lives with a serious chronic illness and has spent years surrounded by people who understandably worry about what might happen to her.
That protection has also created boundaries.
Mallorca represents one of the first opportunities she has had to decide how she wants to live rather than simply how carefully she should live.
And Julián has become a major part of that awakening.
Ry admits that the island and the summer have made her reconsider where she actually wants to be.
Julián’s answer is beautifully simple.
There has never been anywhere else in the world he would rather be than exactly where he is.
The implication is not particularly difficult to understand.
Neither is what happens next.
Their conversation gives way to a kiss, and Ry quietly asks whether she can see his room.
The romantic tension that has been building throughout the film finally crosses another line.
It is an important scene because The Last Sunrise does not treat Ry and Julián’s relationship as simply an attractive summer fling.
Both characters are hiding problems the other does not yet fully understand.
Ry has not been completely honest about the seriousness of her health condition.
Julián has problems of his own involving money and the financial pressure surrounding his family.
And there is an even larger complication developing around their parents.
Ry’s mother has business interests in Mallorca that threaten the land belonging to Julián’s family.
Neither young lover initially understands just how deeply their families are already connected.
That gives moments like the boat date a bittersweet quality.
For a few minutes, none of those complications matter.
There is only the water, the island and two people allowing themselves to enjoy something without knowing how long it can last.
That philosophy runs through much of the film.
Earlier conversations repeatedly return to the idea that something does not need to last forever in order to be worth experiencing.
For Ry, that concept has an especially powerful meaning.
Her illness has trained her to think about risk constantly.
Julián encourages her to think about experience instead.
That does not mean the movie presents recklessness as a solution.
The relationship becomes considerably more complicated precisely because both characters keep important information from one another.
But their romance gives Ry something she has been missing.
Agency.
She starts making decisions because she wants something rather than because somebody is frightened of what might happen if she tries.
Director Carlson Young has spoken about the chemistry between Reficco and Lindez as one of the elements that immediately convinced the filmmakers they had found the right leads.
Their chemistry reading included scenes from Ry and Julián’s early encounters as well as material involving the boat.
That natural connection is particularly visible here.
The scene is deliberately quiet.
There is no huge romantic speech.
No elaborate declaration.
Most of the attraction is communicated through pauses, looks and the way the two characters become increasingly comfortable around one another.
That intimacy helps distinguish The Last Sunrise from a romance built entirely around melodrama.
There certainly is plenty of drama coming.
But for Ry and Julián, falling in love initially feels surprisingly easy.
It is everything surrounding them that makes it difficult.
The film is adapted from Anna Todd’s novel of the same name.
Todd is best known as the author behind the After franchise, but The Last Sunrise approaches romance through a somewhat different emotional framework.
Ry’s illness is not merely a plot obstacle waiting to create a tragic twist.
Todd has explained that elements of Ry’s medical experience were inspired by her own son, who lives with tuberous sclerosis and epilepsy.
She specifically wanted to create a chronically ill protagonist whose existence was not defined only by suffering or an inevitable tragic ending.
That makes Ry’s growing relationship with Julián particularly meaningful.
She is allowed to flirt.
Travel.
Make mistakes.
Fall in love.
Desire someone.
And make choices that have nothing to do with simply being a patient.
Reficco brings that balance to the character.
Ry remains aware that her health can change quickly, but she is increasingly unwilling to let that possibility determine every moment she has left.
Julián becomes the person who shows her another version of life.
He takes her around Mallorca.
Introduces her to his world.
Gets under her skin.
And eventually gets her onto his boat.
Fernando Lindez, meanwhile, gives Julián the easy confidence required for the relationship without making him entirely uncomplicated.
He is charming, but he is also carrying financial pressures and family obligations that Ry does not initially understand.
Their attraction therefore develops while both characters are showing the other only part of themselves.
Eventually those secrets have to surface.
For now, however, Prime Video’s newly released clip captures the romance at its most uncomplicated.
A summer evening.
A boat.
A conversation about appreciating what you have while you still have it.
And a kiss that makes it very clear neither Ry nor Julián wants the date to end just yet.
The Last Sunrise is streaming now on Prime Video.
Watch Julián and Ry’s steamy date below.
