BROKEN SKY
Available from the 16th January 2007
SYNOPSIS
Two university students, Gerardo and Jonás, meet on campus and fall passionately in love.
They enjoy a blissful romance until Jonás becomes obsessed with another boy and drives
Gerardo into the arms of Sérgio. The young men become entangled in a hypnotic dance of
love, longing, rejection, validation, and sexual expression. From the director of A Thousand
Clouds of Peace.
One of the most passionate films in the gay canon, this art film from Julián Hernández (A
Thousand Clouds of Peace) takes the theme of longing to new heights. With very little
spoken dialogue this is a story told through images and non-verbal communication. The
story is quite simple, the film is not, it's a masterpiece of the unspoken. While A Thousand
Clouds was in B&W and very low budget, expect a rich color pallete from this new film, and
some of the cutest boys in a gay film this year.
Gerardo (Hoppe) meets Jonás (Arroyo) and the two boys fall in love. They have sex night
and day. They touch all the time. One night the boys (we say boys and mean it, they're
young) go out to a bar. Gerardo cruises another Bruno (Pereda) and their love is not so
fresh anymore. Then Jonás meets Sergio and they fall in love. There is lots of sex between
these two lovers, but Gerardo hangs heavy in Jonás thoughts. Lots of sex later and the
two boys get together again.
We are not oversimplifying this film. It's basically about adorable Mexican boys who like to
make love all the time. There's plenty of full frontal male nudity and lovemaking. This is not
hardcore boys, there are no erections and no penetration, just lots of sensuous boy flesh.
(Spanish with English subtitles)
Scott Cranin
"Mr. Hernandez circles and scrutinizes his actors, maneuvering them in and out of elaborate
traveling shots that dissolve continuous space. Style makes meaning, and the style is
extravagantly abstract."
Nathan Lee, New York Times.
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