User Reviews

This film starts strong. It's beautifully filmed, the acting for the most part is very strong, the writing is clean and crisp - there is very little to complain about technically. I also really like the way the primary relationship in the story grows and develops. The two characters are very different, and those differences help fuel some outstanding moments of exchange between the two principal characters.

Having said all that the film seems to peter out at the end! The lead character is in conflict with himself, but the way story just seems to sputter to an end is frustrating. No, not all stories have to end with a bow, no doubt - but this seems to just awkwardly terminate.

I still highly recommend the story, and I look forward to this director's next effort - very much worth watching.

The pace, tone, and ambience the film reminds me of Marco Berger's films (Hawaii and Plan B are two of my most favorite LGBT-themed films). It has the same tensely homoerotic cinematography + natural sounds. Though it's kinda ruined by the lack of chemistry between the leads.

Still, I very much enjoyed 90% of the film.

What ruined it for me was the ending. It was very unsatisfying. Worse, it felt forced. Like they ran out of time or something. There was no real reason why it ended that way.

The movie was paced very well. Started out soft, calm, with warm lighting and very little music. It progressed very naturally, and I enjoyed the ride.

My biggest issue with this movie is the child actor. The kid was basically mumbling the entire time, and he delivered his lines flatly. Maybe that was the intention, but it was frustrating. However, Daniela Ramírez was excellent. Francisco and Emilio were great, and had a wonderful chemistry together.

Overall this movie was decent. Not perfect, but not horrible. I didn't like the ending because I'm a hopeless romantic and wanted the two to get together, but I can appreciate it for its realness. Sometimes life doesn't work out the way you want.

Usually, an individual will find his sexuality black and white, but for some people like Bruno, it's "in the grayscale".

Bruno, a successful married architect with one kid, is struggling internally and opted to separate temporarily from wife to stay at his grandpa's house, while doing design work (a monument building project) for his client. He meets Fer, his tour guide who showed him some building concept ideas around the city. Then, he starts to explore his hidden sexuality. Throughout the film, we become a voyeur and see his loneliness, confusion and his indecision, consequently affecting the people around him.

A number of gay themed films have tackled sexual confusion/ambiguity. This one works quite well as a moderately-paced film, just allowing characters to develop. Music is minimal, you can hear only some ambient bar music. Natural acting among the main leads: we love Bruno's talking eyes and restrained acting and we celebrate Fer's openly gay persona. Most of the characters here are imperfect but understanding people we see everyday.

It's the director's debut feature film, and award-winning at that. Highly recommended.

I can sympathize with Bruno since he was brought up dreaming of only "romantic tales between a man and a woman." His bridge is a long one to cross. And when he gets there, we hope that it would be a more meaningful and happier place than where he is now.

Another flick of a gay man falling for a confused man. These "brokeback mountain" films have been done to death..

BIG OL SPOILERS *** We're shown the basic premise right at the start of the film... Bruno is separating from his wife. Then he's off to Santiago to meet with a tour guide, who will show him around. And of course there is his son. Somehow, he ends up at a gay bar ostensibly after a work event, but of course he bumps into Fer, the guide, who tells him he's gay and that's his bar. We are shown some foreshadowing when Fer says "I hate happy endings!" This moves pretty slowly, which I don't usually mind; movies that move quite slow are very relaxing, and give you time to think. A study of fluid relationships. Obviously, if Bruno was already leaving his wife, there was clearly something already troubling him; Fer puts the moves on Bruno, and after resisting at first, they get together. An annoying few minutes where they director has the camera jump around, as we seem to be peeking in on their fun. Then, of course, things blow up with the wife after Bruno is spotted kissing Fer in public. Produced and directed by Claudio Marcone. Not much information about him on IMDb, but this seems to be his only film project so far. Written by Rodrigo Norero. Not much info about him either. I wonder if this was his own story. Contains nudity and almost explicit sex scenes, so this one is not for the kiddies. Showing on netflix. Overall, an excellent film. We observe the awkwardness and un-ease we all feel when we experience new things, or even just the confusion of not knowing what we really want. Interesting that at the very end, the wife admits rejoicing when she discovers that the husband isn't perfect. I'm surprised that this has such a low rating as of today... would have expected it to be higher. it deserves a higher rating, and look forward to more from this team.

Yeah... like one person said the movie grows as it goes along. The acting wasn't bad. The actors easy on the eyes. But I have to say the ending was very disappointing. There was no closure it really didn't end. Not at all satisfying one way or the other. Other wise I enjoyed the movie.

This film begins as an apparently typical adult-married-man-coming out movie. But as it progresses it grows in depth and treats a topic, in my experience, seldom seen as the center point of a film. What happens when you're not 100% sure about what you want in life and everyone around you seem to expect it? At some point of the film I begun antagonizing the main character because he was hurting the people around him, but in the end I felt very reflected in him because rarely in life are we sure of what we want and that is also his dilemma.

Overall I found the film enjoyable, with a nice cinematography, great acting and left me thinking. Refreshing to watch a gay themed movies which are also interesting. My thumbs up!