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Thousand Clouds of Peace, A
Strand Releasing
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Juan Carlos Ortuño,
Juan Carlos Torres,
Salvador Alvarez,
Llane Fragoso,
Martha Gómez,
Rosa María Gómez,
Manuel Grapain Zaquelarez,
and
Salvador Hernández
Gerardo, a gay teenager, roams the streets of Mexico City in search of someone able to reveal the secret hidden between the lines of a goodbye letter from his ex-lover. (Strand Releasing)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Foreign
|
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Julián Hernández
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Julián Hernández
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: April 16, 2004
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
80 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Mexico |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Spanish (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor"; Teddy Award (Best Feature Film), 2003 Berlin International Film Festival

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Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
Graced with a shimmering visual style and sense of lyrical self-consciousness that owes a debt to French visionary Jean Cocteau, the modest film provides further evidence of Mexico's recent cinematic renaissance.

60
LA Weekly
Jon Strickland
If first-time writer-director Julián Hernández lets his knotted narrative get away from him too often, he nevertheless shows a miraculous sense of style for a 31-year-old.

60
Film Threat
Staff (Not credited)
A young man wanders the streets looking for love. There you have most of the plot of Julián Hernández's masterful debut feature. But what a rich cinematic journey this is!

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Richard James Havis
Hernandez's desire to utilize all the armaments of the filmmaker hits the viewer with a visceral force. What could have been a mess turns out to be a success.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Ultimately, the film is the kind of neither-fish-nor-fowl work unlikely to satisfy anyone: There's not enough hot-and-heavy action for thrill-seekers, and not enough substance for those looking for above-the-waistline kicks.

40
TV Guide
Ken Fox
It all amounts to something less than an 80-minute Calvin Klein advertisement.

38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Self-indulgent in the extreme, Julián Hernández's laconic ode to heartbreak feels like the work of a lovelorn teenager.

38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A murky and morbid dirge of a gay romance.

30
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
A bleak, static mood piece about adolescent emptiness. There's little dialogue, and what there is offers the scantest information about Gerardo, who, as played by Mr. Ortuño, conveys an impenetrable blank-faced melancholy.

30
Variety
Eddie Cockrell
Handsome but dramatically static drama.

30
Village Voice
Jorge Morales
All the stylistic flourishes can't hide the lack of an actual plot, character development, or point. Like Gerardo, we wait, hoping something will happen, knowing nothing will.

30
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
It's a victory of tone over storytelling, though perhaps a Pyrrhic one.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's as pretentious and wispy as its title.

25
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
By embracing a static plot, making Gerardo a depressed Robotron and Mexico City a ghost town, Hernandez only succeeds in alienating us, even while focusing on the most universal of themes: Breaking up is hard to do.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Hernandez's debut feature is a thuddingly slow, often wordless portrait of emotional pain.

20
Dallas Observer
Melissa Levine
Alas, the film has good intentions, but it's a failure. Just try to stay awake.


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