I Am Happiness on Earth

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I Am Happiness on Earth

2014

2h 2m

Drama

LGBTQ+

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Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, and mixes objective reality with artistic creation. As the story he is filming flounders, his world becomes trapped in the lens of a camera.

David Lewis

San Francisco Chronicle

The key to enjoying this film is parking your narrative instincts at the door and allowing the masterfully constructed sensual images to wash over you.

Jun 30, 2020

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Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

If the film defies conventional form, it does so without the gravitas that conceptual cohesion brings, quickly rendering its experimentation into gratuitous aesthetic masturbation.

Rated: 1/4

Aug 17, 2014

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Nick Schager

Film Journal International

...Hernandez merely revels in his own pretentiousness, staging one dully limp encounter after another with self-conscious camerawork and absurdly stilted drama that renders the entire project a pseudo-porny slog.

Aug 15, 2014

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Jorge (JJ) Negrete

Butaca Ancha

A film that is impeccable from a formal point of view, but that begins to stumble with the limits of its speech. [Full review in Spanish]

May 26, 2017

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Fr. Chris Carpenter

Movie Dearest

(Director Julian) Hernandez provides loads of sexy scenery but not much sense. The film is heavy on slow, sensual storytelling that more often than not demands viewers' intuition rather than offer clearly delineated characters and relationships.

Rated: C+

Aug 15, 2014

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Moves pretty slowly at times but the sex scenes are pretty intense! The emotions are expressed very genuinely by the actors.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/14/18

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johann m

A frustrated, austere-looking director that just doesn't give a shit about anything makes this movie an awful experience and a waste of time. Nothing interesting ever happens and it is just too slow and too long.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Such a boring film to have such beautiful young men playing in it.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Audience Member

Story line didn't seem to flow. Lots of male nakedness.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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Audience Member

Here´s not happiness. An empty review of some "clichés" on the mexican gay scene from the view point of a movie director that seeks young meet to fuck. (any similarities to director´s real life behavior and fame are merely coincidences). This is a predictable and stereotype filled movie with traditional roles about gay boys. A casting process obviously influenced more by smooth bubble butt sizes and less by acting skills and talent, resulting on a "soap opera like" cast of fancy faces and skinny pants that are not representative of mexican gay people´s life. Plenty of sex scenes without an argument, empty quotes and scenes that seems to be taken from some average midnight softporn movie at cinemax. If you want to have an erection (assuming that you are gay and you like young boy´s tiny tight asses) then rent it... If you are a common human being, gay or not, searching for a good story about other human being, gay or not, then just pass it by... Here´s nothing for you.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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Audience Member

No sÃ© de dÃ³nde sigue sacando dinero este hombre para hacer sus aburridas, largas y malas pelÃculas.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Julián Hernández

Director

Hugo Catalán

Emiliano

Gabino Rodríguez

Andrés

Andrea Portal

Sunny

Emilio Von Sternerfels

Jazen

Iván Álvarez

Milton

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Synopsis

Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, and mixes objective reality with artistic creation. As the story he is filming flounders, his world becomes trapped in the lens of a camera.

Director: Julián Hernández
Producer: Roberto Fiesco
Screenwriter: Julián Hernández, Ulises Pérez Mancilla
Genre: Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 23, 2017
Runtime: 2h 2m