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Broken Sky

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Gerardo (Miguel Ángel Hoppe) and Jonas (Fernando Arroyo) are very much in love, but they break up after one cheats with a stranger he met at a disco. The other then begins a relationship with Sergio (Alejandro Rojo), but Gerardo and Jonas are still too much in love to remain apart for long.

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Tim Grierson L.A. Weekly A film dripping with melodrama and pretension. Nov 23, 2006 Full Review Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times [Director] Hernndez's approach makes all the difference, trusting the camera to reveal the ebb and flow of emotions that sweep over all three men. Rated: 4.5/5 Nov 21, 2006 Full Review Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter An endurance test notable mainly for its evocative cinematography and the well-toned bodies of its young male leads. Oct 18, 2006 Full Review David Noh Film Journal International This thing crawls over a torturous 140-minute running length, with teenage love given a dire gravitas which verges on the absurd. Mar 1, 2007 Full Review Don Willmott Filmcritic.com It's hard to know what fetishes/obsessions/issues are at work here, but they do yield interesting moviemaking. Rated: 3.5/5 Feb 9, 2007 Full Review Ted Murphy Murphy's Movie Reviews I have jokingly described BROKEN SKY (EL CIELO DIVIDIDO) as the gay, Mexican version of THE BREAK-UP, although to be fair, this film at least has more sympathetic characters. ... But, at 140 minutes, [it] goes on far too long. Rated: C- Jan 11, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member a wonderful movie worked with a shortage of dialogue that tells of deep silences and works perfectly with a wonderful choreography between the actors and the camera. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Hernandez is one of those directors who make the same movie over and over. He's also one of those who use their own cinema language. Unique camera work and lack of dialogues. Total focus on main characters and romantic sphere of their lives which moves everything what's in the background aside and which makes the movie a theater play like and very meditative. Off camera comments could be skipped most of the time since they're there to inform about obvious and therefore make a viewer dumb but on the other hand along with baroque music they make the story more universal, something that could happened centuries ago. What made me dislike his "Bramadero" was going to strongly into love scenes which made it all pornography to me. There is a lot of intimacy here too, the whole movie is very sensual but it's all tasteful, sophisticated and serves only as a tool to tell something more than that. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member fantastic camera work and musical score Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty weak and self indulgent film though at times beautifully photographed. If you're into young latin boys (without a lot of story line), this is your movie. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member "Broken Sky" is the breakup of an ideal gay relationship between Jonas and Gerardo in Mexico City. They meet at a University, are attracted to each other, have sex instantly, fall in love but something goes wrong. DirectorJulian Hernandez has little dialogue to explain things and relies on images and style to convey his movie. After separating, the boys discover discos and other hot male bodies before, eventually, ending up together. The movie is like a long poem in it's depiction of sex and love. Even I was misty-eyed at the rejections during reconcilation. As gay movies go, it's slow and meandering but I found it worthwhile as art. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member With truly passionate scenes, a few lines during the whole film and an indecipherable ending, Hernandez's film flows sometimes sluggishly slow and some others takes you around Mexico City life, love, despair and hope through the eyes of two young boys. Those who have a hope set high for love will like it. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Gerardo (Miguel Ángel Hoppe) and Jonas (Fernando Arroyo) are very much in love, but they break up after one cheats with a stranger he met at a disco. The other then begins a relationship with Sergio (Alejandro Rojo), but Gerardo and Jonas are still too much in love to remain apart for long.
Director
Julián Hernández
Screenwriter
Julián Hernández
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Sep 29, 2006
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 25, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$28.7K
Runtime
2h 20m
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