A Year Without Love
Metascore
62 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    70
    First-time director Anahí Berneri, who wrote this involving, if slow-moving, film with Pablo Pérez (based on Pérez’s own diaries), doesn't shy away from the whippings, rope work and carefully calibrated humiliation that make up a good night of dungeon play. Yet A Year Without Love isn't a sex movie (so don’t expect one), but a studied examination of how one man folds jarring events into the everyday fabric of his life.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jorge Morales
    70
    Anahí Berneri's promising feature debut (based on Pablo Pérez's autobiographical novel) is at once unsentimental and sympathetic; she evinces rare insight into a gay man's life and sexuality without cringing, passing judgment, or wallowing in pity.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    A Year Without Love is only Berneri's third feature yet is an elegant, economical work.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Eddie Cockrell
    70
    An Argentine writer dying of AIDS searches for a medical cure and some human warmth in the hospitals and S&M clubs of Buenos Aires in dignified, thoughtful drama A Year Without Love.
  5. Empire
    Reviewed by: Patrick Peters
    60
    Abrasive but affecting.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    The unusually explicit dungeon scenes with Pablo, a leather daddy and a fellow slave may whip a rather specialized audience into a frenzy. But for others, A Year Without Love will be a less pleasurably painful experience.
  7. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Hartlaub
    50
    It's a weighty and visually interesting movie that unfortunately doesn't have a strong message beyond its overwhelming bleakness.

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