A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky
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35 out of 100

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  • Starring: Juan Carlos Ortuño
  • Summary: 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)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 16
  3. Negative: 10 out of 16
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    70
    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.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Richard James Havis
    60
    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.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    A murky and morbid dirge of a gay romance.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    Self-indulgent in the extreme, Julián Hernández's laconic ode to heartbreak feels like the work of a lovelorn teenager.

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