End of the Century

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Garry A @heavyg 04/30/2025 I would like the $3 back I paid to rent this film. There sex scene wasn't hot at all. The time lines were confusing. Alot of nothing was going on too. See more 08/27/2020 Mind blowing, one of the best movies I have ever seen 🤯🍾 See more Apollo M @RT04543059 08/04/2020 The story is quite confusing. But other than that, if I got the story right, it is quite alright. The acting and directing are great. See more 07/29/2020 Hum, what is happening with the timeline?! Spoilers : one of them says they've already met before then the films "goes back" in time without any sort of warning. Then it comes back to the present, only to go to some alternate reality for a short while (without any notice, again!!) before coming back to the present again. That aside, the film is alright. The characters are likeable and sweet. See more 11/11/2019 It was somewhat obscure but overall good rhythm and acting. Having goat cheese, bread and white wine by the Barcelona sunset reflected the sensuality and simplicity of this pleasant movie. Perfect pastime even when you suspect you don't follow the script completely. See more Alan W @PatronWong 10/27/2019 Lucio Castro's film begins in a rather mundane and wordless manner as we see Juan Barberini's Ocho arrives at his Barcelona Airbnb. He wanders around the city, cruise on Grindr and goes to the beach. That's when he sees Ramon Pujol's Javi again and eventually they hook up. So far, so conventional queer cinema. However, Castro then throws us a curveball (and not for the only time in this film) just before the end of the first act and it jumps back 20 years earlier. The set-up is typical of gay romantic drama of this ilk but the writer-director has remodelled it and gives it a shiny and original sheen. What I thought the film was initially turns out, happily, to be quite different from what it eventually becomes: a queer Before Sunrise sliced with the DNA of Sliding Doors that takes a melancholic look at love, hope and missed opportunities and how we change as the world around us, and also in this instance gay life, have changed in the intervening two decades. Filmed with often stationary long takes, Castro develops a style that seems appropriate to the material as if we become silent observers soaking up the intimacy of either a conversation over cheese and wine or a sizzling encounter between two hot guys. There are moments when the film veers on the pretentious side and despite the director's justification during the Q&A afterwards that it was a deliberate decision to keep the same actors and the same look for the characters as they play both their younger and the older selves, I find it a little confusing at first and unnecessarily distracting. Those small quibbles aside, I've nevertheless enjoyed this contemplative and enigmatic film that refreshingly reshapes familiar elements into something appealing and rather romantic.
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