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I Am Happiness on Earth

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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.

Critics Reviews

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David Lewis San Francisco Chronicle 06/30/2020
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. Go to Full Review
Diego Semerene Slant Magazine 08/17/2014
1/4
If the film defies conventional form, it does so without the gravitas that conceptual cohesion brings, quickly rendering its experimentation into gratuitous aesthetic masturbation. Go to Full Review
Nick Schager Film Journal International 08/15/2014
...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. Go to Full Review
Jorge (JJ) Negrete Butaca Ancha 05/26/2017
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] Go to Full Review
Fr. Chris Carpenter Movie Dearest 08/15/2014
C+
(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. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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06/14/2018 Moves pretty slowly at times but the sex scenes are pretty intense! The emotions are expressed very genuinely by the actors. See more johann m 05/19/2018 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. See more 03/12/2018 Such a boring film to have such beautiful young men playing in it. See more 12/27/2015 Story line didn't seem to flow. Lots of male nakedness. See more 05/31/2015 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. See more 09/26/2014 No sé de dónde sigue sacando dinero este hombre para hacer sus aburridas, largas y malas películas. See more Read all reviews
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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