Broken Sky

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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 4.5/5 Stars •  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 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member fantastic camera work and musical score Rated 5/5 Stars •  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 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review ron c This is not for everyone. Think 2 hour 20 minute walk through ballet without dancing. Previous reviews have explained plot and devices. It was an effective film and I couldn't turn it off, but stronger editing here and there would have gone a long way to my overall enjoyment. It was hard to finish. The film seemed aimless at times, repetitive, sometimes confusing and hypocritical (The relationship is over but it's not, repeats a few times) and oh so heavy handed. The use of physical expression instead of dialogue often conveyed mellow-dramatic cliches. I will say that performers could have gone way over the top but do a good job keeping things grounded. Some scenes felt a bit contrived like a walk through of an obvious dance piece where performers look longingly, approach, touch, turn away, turn back, turn away. In this simple story, no one get's to know the other. Characters see each other and fall in love. Such is the way of youth but I believe that the kind of profound love expressed here is established by more than a glance from across a space. The film has a lot of heart and the performances are good especially Miguel Angel Hoppe Canto who emotes really well. He's got angst and longing down pat. Scenes are lovely, compensating for lower production values. Some scenes are moving but the director seemed to need to repeat them deflating their impact. However actual it may be in life, it's eye-roll inducing when a character repeats the exact thing scene after scene. I have to say, I liked it, I liked the idea of it though it was excessive. I wanted to like it more and I would have an edited version. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 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 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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