Ponderous and pretentious.
A Thousand Clouds Of Peace (2003)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:8
Rotten:18
Average Rating:4.6/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release:Apr 16, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: This breathtaking, quiet film about unrequited love explores new territory in gay cinema. Gerardo (Juan Carlos Artuno) is a 17-year-old guy seeking real love in a heartless big city. A series of... This breathtaking, quiet film about unrequited love explores new territory in gay cinema. Gerardo (Juan Carlos Artuno) is a 17-year-old guy seeking real love in a heartless big city. A series of one night stands, strange encounters, and bizarre pickups leads him into a miasma of confusion and doubt. He thinks he has discovered love in Bruno (Juan Carlos Torres), but wakes up to find his partner inexplicably vanished. Gerardo wanders the streets of Mexico City, seeing flashes of his ex in all the male bodies he encounters. With a Dear John letter in hand, he struggles find the hidden meaning in this written rejection. The meaning of love, or lack thereof, haunts him as he searches for connection to humanity. The strength of this picture, which was an official selection at Sundance Film Festival and winner of the Teddy aware at Berlin, is upheld by profoundly artful B&W cinematography by Diego Arizmendi. [More]
Starring: Juan Carlos Ortuno
Starring: Juan Carlos Ortuno
Director: Julian Hernandez
Director: Julian Hernandez
Studio: Strand Releasing
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Reviews for A Thousand Clouds Of Peace
A sad, slow-moving tale, marked by literal as well as spiritual poverty.
Idea and technique are of some interest here, but, in the end, not enough.
Self-indulgent in the extreme, Julian Hernandez's laconic ode to heartbreak feels like the work of a lovelorn teenager.
A ponderous, quiet little mess that has nothing to say and no idea how to say it anyway.
A self-consciously arty piece that may be psychologically useful to its writer-director but is torture for its audience.
Mr. Hernández's attempt to put an interior landscape on film a la Pasolini may seem stultifying and pretentious, but it's also a brave dark experiment.
If first-time writer-director Julian Hernandez lets his knotted narrative get away from him too often, he nevertheless shows a miraculous sense of style for a 31-year-old.
All the stylistic flourishes can't hide the lack of an actual plot, character development, or point.
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