Anderson Ballesteros, Barbet Schroeder, Germán Jaramillo
The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin, Colombia and the gun-happy 16-year-old assassin Alexis, who m...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 26, 2002
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Flixster Reviews (47)
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November 26, 2009This was a dark and violent movie. The story of a gay writer Fernando, returning to his country after being away for so long. He met a 16 year old gay boy Alexis, who prostitute for living. The movie seemed to drag so long in some scenes and this made it feel slow and boring. The...( read more)
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June 24, 2009Basically a NAMBLA wet dream for Latinophiles- unbelievable and pretty stupid on top of that. Not that I'm promoting size-ism or ageism, but this fat old guy was also ugly. But I guess it's easy for gay teenage gangsters to say "I love you" when their sugar daddy is buying their ...( read more)
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July 20, 2008This is one of my all time favorite movies. I identify with it many levels. Truely amazing and inspirational in many ways. Opens your eyes to what may be reality in Colombia. The gay scenes are so realistic and the search for something a gay man may not even know. Love that ...( read more)
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December 8, 2007It is at the same time real and surreal, fantastic and everyday-like. On that account, I liked this film, However, it fails to please me as a whole, since many things are left unexplained or are merely developed, feeling rushed or amateurish (and Schroeder is no newcomer), especi...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
October 28, 2001
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
September 18, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Schroeder crafts a film of whiplash urgency. full review
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