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- 2004
- Not Rated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 23 m
- 2004
- Not Rated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 23 m
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)
Directed By: Julián Hernández
Written By: Julián Hernández
- 2004
- Not Rated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 23 m
- 2004
- Not Rated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 23 m
A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky
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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)
Directed By: Julián Hernández
Written By: Julián Hernández
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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6% Positive
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31% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
63% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
35
6% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
31% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
63% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
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.
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!
It all amounts to something less than an 80-minute Calvin Klein advertisement.
It's as pretentious and wispy as its title.
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.
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.
Alas, the film has good intentions, but it's a failure. Just try to stay awake.
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Awards
Ariel Awards, Mexico
• 3 Wins & 8 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Lima Latin American Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
