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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 11/23/2006
A film dripping with melodrama and pretension. Go to Full Review
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times 11/21/2006
4.5/5
[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. Go to Full Review
Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter 10/18/2006
An endurance test notable mainly for its evocative cinematography and the well-toned bodies of its young male leads. Go to Full Review
David Noh Film Journal International 03/01/2007
This thing crawls over a torturous 140-minute running length, with teenage love given a dire gravitas which verges on the absurd. Go to Full Review
Don Willmott Filmcritic.com 02/09/2007
3.5/5
It's hard to know what fetishes/obsessions/issues are at work here, but they do yield interesting moviemaking. Go to Full Review
Ted Murphy Murphy's Movie Reviews 01/11/2007
C-
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. Go to Full Review
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06/15/2016 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. See more 09/01/2013 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. See more 07/27/2013 fantastic camera work and musical score See more 10/20/2012 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. See more 03/26/2011 "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. See more 03/20/2011 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. See more 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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