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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0712267260928
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Strand Releasing
Languages: SpanishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Strand Releasing
MPN: SRED26092D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Strand Releasing
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Running Time: 140 minutes
Studio: Strand Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Two university students gerardo and jonas meet on campus and fall passionately in love. They enjoy a blissful romance until jonas becomes obsessed with another boy and drives gerard into the arms of sergio. The young men become entangled in a hypnotic dance of love longing rejection validation and sexual Studio: Strand Releasing Release Date: 01/16/2007 Run time: 140 minutes
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Watch out! You might get hooked on this film, even if it's slow moving and requires a great deal of patience to sit through. But the images are well worth it, and the love story just might carry you through. Amazing, innovative editing. And erotic, sexual images will draw you in, if you are tuned into to two (or is it three) boys falling in love with each other, and if the boyx are as exotic looking as Jonas, Geraldo, and Sergio. As I said, you might get hooked. I have spent several evenings watching this film, getting lost in its magic. If you like excellent cinematography, this is for you.
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I don't know what the reviewer "Gordon Larko" is smoking. For some reason, he feels compelled to leave the EXACT SAME horrible review and 1 STAR rating for all GAY-THEMED movies. Probably a "personal problem" of his. Hopefully this review will help correct this imbalance. I can't believe AMAZON is allowing this GAY BASHER to use their website as a venue to spread his hate.
By the way, This is an absolutely WONDERFUL movie!
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"Broken Sky" is a foreign film that is watchable for anyone because director Julian Hernandez does an amazing thing: He tells the story with hardly any dialogue at all. In fact, a full 20 mins. pass by until the main characters speak..and even then, the dialogue is brief. What Hernandez does instead is tell the story through body language & subtle expressions as the camera follows the characters from one place to another.
The main characters, Jonas & Gerardo, are 2 beautiful Spanish youths who meet & fall in love at college. Their meeting begins passionately in a love scene that captures the exquisite thrill & discovery of love with someone new as the camera rests in one spot & watches the heated urgency between the boys. As the story progresses, the lovers' happiness begins to evaporate after Jonas begins to stray into the embrace of another. Subtly pushing Gerardo away in bed, eventually Gerardo follows suit, accepting the affections of Sergio, who has been shadowing the couple for quite some time.
"Sky" becomes a lyrical study in passion & pain as the characters become entangled in their own emotional webbing. It's an example of what happens when you push someone close to you away...and then, when the two finally re-unite, it is too late to retrieve what was once there. As one of the songs on the track warble, they become "close, yet so far away".
Its ending is bittersweet as Jonas & Gerardo tearfully realize the damage they've created, although they are forever close to each other in their hearts.
Hernandez takes a casual approach to the pace, in which scenes in bed alternate with public scenes (most notably, the gay dance bar). "Casual" is the word; the running time clocks in at 140 mins., quite a length for a film such as this. So you have to have a great deal of patience in order to find out how it ends. The director also eschews using the "complete camera rotation" method, in which we expect to see another person in the room once the camera stops.
"Broken Sky" is not for everyone. However, its portrayal of passion is honest, and its artistic range of emotion is unsurpassed.
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Not being versed in queer cinema I was a bit apprehensive when I started seeing this film. My past queer cinema experiences were not that great (Boys Dont Cry, Brokeback Mountain) so I was expecting more of the same shock and awe or apologetic BS from those other films. However I was NOT disappointed. This has got to be one of the most amazing/beautiful/engrossing films I have enjoyed in a while. Julian Hernandez is a true visual poet in a way few other directors are (Kar-Wai; DePalma; Spielberg) and his collaboration with cinematographer Alejandro Cantu, makes for one of the most visually sumptuous films of the last few years. Other users haver complained about the "plotlessness" of the film and I think this is unfortunately a sad side effect of contemporary film culture. If something shocking or fast paced doesnt happen every so often in a film it is quickly cast off as pointless banter. Admittedly this is a film devoid of fast paced action and a structured plot. However this is more of an asset as it forces you to focus your attention on the visual poetry being written on-screen. The lack of dialog is by no means a negative aspect of the film as all the information that you need to know is expressed in visual terms (the true nature of film).
So if you enjoy film, ABSOLUTELY LOVE the art of cinematography PLEASE do yourself a favor and pick this one up. As a supplement you may want to read Armond White's review of this film (NY Press Film Critic and arguably THE BEST film critic in the US).
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This if a wonderfull, and very artistic, film. This is an example of what an art movie is all about.
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