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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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07/03/04
Film Threat

A sad, slow-moving tale, marked by literal as well as spiritual poverty.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
08/08/04
David Noh
David Noh
Film Journal International

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.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
04/15/04
Jon Strickland
Jon Strickland
L.A. Weekly

Works principally as a mood piece, with the gorgeous cinematography doing much of the heavy lifting.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
04/15/04
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
Los Angeles Times

Hernandez's desire to utilize all the armaments of the filmmaker hits the viewer with a visceral force.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
05/04/04
Richard James Havis
Richard James Havis
Hollywood Reporter

Julián Hernández has ... a film that will remain in memory for along time for anyone who knows the ecstasy of early love suddenly dissolved by unaccountable abandonment.

Full Review Source: JWR | comment Comment
07/31/04
S. James Wegg
S. James Wegg
JWR

A Thousand Clouds of Peace is a difficult film, both in form and substance, but it's that form and substance that makes it worthwhile, raising it above the level of typical angsty gay art-house cinema.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
04/16/04
Tim Cogshell
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine

Ponderous and pretentious.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
04/16/04
E! Online

Succeeds in alienating us.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
05/21/04
Allison Benedikt
Allison Benedikt
Chicago Tribune

He suffers, we suffer - the end.

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06/18/04
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

As pretentious and wispy as its title.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
07/30/04
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
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10/19/04
Don Willmott
Don Willmott
Filmcritic.com

Idea and technique are of some interest here, but, in the end, not enough.

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04/12/04
Donald J. Levit
Donald J. Levit
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Love in the Time of Cholera this ain’t.

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04/06/04
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

Self-indulgent in the extreme, Julian Hernandez's laconic ode to heartbreak feels like the work of a lovelorn teenager.

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04/16/04
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

A ponderous, quiet little mess that has nothing to say and no idea how to say it anyway.

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07/03/04
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

A self-consciously arty piece that may be psychologically useful to its writer-director but is torture for its audience.

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06/20/04
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

A thuddingly slow, often wordless portrait of emotional pain.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
04/02/04
G. Allen Johnson
G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle

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.

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06/17/04
Jane Sumner
Jane Sumner
Dallas Morning News
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