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Thousand Clouds of Peace, A

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Thousand Clouds of Peace, A reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama  |  Foreign  |  Romance

Written by: Julián Hernández

Directed by: Julián Hernández

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 16, 2004

Running Time: 80 minutes, Color

Origin: Mexico

Summary

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)

What The Critics Said

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70

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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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40

TV Guide Ken Fox

It all amounts to something less than an 80-minute Calvin Klein advertisement.

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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.

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38

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A murky and morbid dirge of a gay romance.

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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.

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30

Variety Eddie Cockrell

Handsome but dramatically static drama.

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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.

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30

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

It's a victory of tone over storytelling, though perhaps a Pyrrhic one.

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30

Washington Post Desson Thomson

It's as pretentious and wispy as its title.

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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.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson

Hernandez's debut feature is a thuddingly slow, often wordless portrait of emotional pain.

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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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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 3.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Ron H. gave it a 3:
Self indulged. This film was about the cinematographer proclaiming "I will show off my focus techniques", "I will dazzle you with pink and green hues", " I will over saturate the image with ah... white, white and more white", "I will even make sure that for those of you who can't understand Spanish, that the subtitles will also be white, with a thin, a very thin, black outline. The story plods along, with even a "be careful who you meet in that alley" cliche'. Well for that matter one cliche after another. I could not believe this film has won awards. People were walking out of the theatre! RH

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