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A Thousand Clouds of Peace *** (2003, Juan Carlos Ortuno, Juan Torres, Perla de la Rosa, Salvador Alvarez) – Classic Movie Review 12,990

Julián Hernández’s starkly poetic neorealist 2003 Mexican romantic drama film A Thousand Clouds of Peace showcases his dazzling style and imagination. Juan Carlos Ortuño stars as Gerardo who searches for love, but seems totally lost.  […]

Jul, 09

Broken Sky [El cielo dividido] **** (2006, Ángel Hoppe, Fernando Arroyo, Alejandro Rojo) – Classic Movie Review 12,989

Julián Hernández’s highly impressive 2006 Mexican romantic drama film Broken Sky [El cielo dividido] tells the story of an overwhelming first love almost inexplicably turning sour. Writer/ director Julián Hernández’s highly impressive, emotional and moving […]

Jul, 08

Stupid Boy [Garçon Stupide] *** (2004, Pierre Chatagny, Natacha Koutchoumov, Rui Alves) – Classic Movie Review 12,861

Pierre Chatagny stars in Swiss film-maker Lionel Baier’s unsettling 2004 coming-of-age drama film Stupid Boy [Garçon Stupide] as a young man called Loïc, who takes a troubled path towards realising who he really is and […]

Apr, 28

Watercolors ***½ (2008, Tye Olson, Kyle Clare, Greg Louganis, Karen Black) – Classic Movie Review 12,750

The winning bitter-sweet 2008 romantic film Watercolors stars Tye Olson and Kyle Clare as classmates Danny and Carter, two boys who make a splash at love.  ‘Two boys make a splash at love.’  ‘Only art […]

Dec, 07

Il Primo Giorno D’inverno [The First Day of Winter] *** (2008, Mattia De Gasperis, Michela Cova, Andrea Semeghini, Alberto Gerundo) – Classic Movie Review 12,713

The 2008 Italian drama film The First Day of Winter stars Mattia De Gasperis as Valerio, a lonely, introverted boy who can’t get on with others. He observes other boys sneakily and spies on a […]

Nov, 10

Passages *** (2003, Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos) – Classic Movie Review 12,665

Ira Sachs’s 2023 French romantic drama film Passages is a smart but spectacularly chilly film without a sympathetic character in sight, particularly its incredibly selfish, nasty film-director ‘hero’ (Franz Rogowski). Director Ira Sachs’s 2023 French romantic drama film Passages […]

Oct, 08

Cassandro ***½ (2023, Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Mark Vasconcellos, Andrea Pazmino, Yavor Vesselinov) – Classic Movie Review 12,650

Gael García Bernal has winning ways in the feel-good 2023 biopic Cassandro as Saúl Armendáriz, a gay wrestler from El Paso, Texas, who rises to world stardom in the early 1980s after he creates the […]

Sep, 22

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