The Night (2016)
DVDRip | MKV | 720x414 | x264 @ 965 Kbps | 141 min | 1,42 Gb
Audio: Español AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded + srt)
Genre: Art-house, Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 720x414 | x264 @ 965 Kbps | 141 min | 1,42 Gb
Audio: Español AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded + srt)
Genre: Art-house, Drama
Director: Edgardo Castro
Writer: Eduardo Castro
Stars: Edgardo Castro, Paula Ituriza, Dolores Guadalupe Olivares
The story tells, from an accentuated hyper-realistic aesthetic, the life of Martin, a man in his forties who is desperately lonely and seeks, through sex, some company, to spend that time of which nothing seems to be expected. Under this constant desolation, he finds in cocaine, alcohol and in some other orgy a state of momentary pleasure every night.
… One must note that this is cinéma-vérité on the next level. The protagonist of the film, Martin, is also the director of this film, and he shows great courage in showing himself in this light. He probably draws from his own experiences as he captures the strange, bizarre, desperate, tender, and frustrating ever so well, which will be recognizable to anyone who has strayed through this sleazy world of urban night. The film is sexually explicit enough to be unapologetically realistic, but not so much that it is basic porno. The scenes are raw and meta-realistic; some characters were truly picked up, off the street and are gay for pay and under the influence of drugs, which injects a dosis of raw authenticity into this piece of fiction.
I consider this film another outstanding gay themed Argentine film of this decade, together with Muerte en Buenos Aires, Plan B, Vil Romance and El Tercero. Argentina delivers every time, and this film excells.
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