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There are definite signs for certain film directors.

If the film starts with the rumble and chitter of ambient crowd noise and the film is in stunning black and white and the textures of all surfaces, human and all others is stark, you are in Hernandez land.

He also likes long titles.

Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor / A Thousand Clouds of Peace Cover the Sky (2004)

A male hustler turns out to be just a boy from the provinces looking for love. Cliché alerts light up here.

It is a shitty film really but I liked Hernendez' later work and so wanted his first movie.

It is all self indulgent. Totally showing off. Someone said "art porn". Yes.

And I loved it.

There are camera tricks, magic pans, hilarious editing (I actually believe some of it is an in-joke).

But it is also stunning. Beautiful. Well acted. The actors are clearly having a good time showing off.

There is a lot of dry humping, the gay kind, and the boy, as always, is beautiful.

What more can one ask of a rainy day?

I will surely see it again. It is in this way that a Netflix2 film can magically become a 5. Through the mere intervention of an avid Hernandez fan.

Now I have all his films on DVD.

Labels: films, gay films