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  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 24 m

Summary When Ocho (Juan Barberini), a 30-something Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, spots Javi (Ramón Pujol), a Spaniard from Berlin, from the balcony of his Airbnb, the attraction is subtle but persistent. After a missed connection on the beach, a third chance encounter escalates to a seemingly random hookup. But are these two merely be...

Directed By: Lucio Castro

Written By: Lucio Castro

  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2019
  • Unrated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 24 m

End of the Century

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
80
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary When Ocho (Juan Barberini), a 30-something Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, spots Javi (Ramón Pujol), a Spaniard from Berlin, from the balcony of his Airbnb, the attraction is subtle but persistent. After a missed connection on the beach, a third chance encounter escalates to a seemingly random hookup. But are these two merely be...

Directed By: Lucio Castro

Written By: Lucio Castro

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100
Aug 16, 2019
Like a great poem, End of the Century gives voice to a seemingly indescribable feeling, one anyone who’s ever fallen in love will recognize from deep in their soul — as if bumping into an old friend you forgot how much you liked.
By Jude Dry FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 19, 2019
It’s a stirring and delicately reflective piece of work.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
83
Aug 15, 2019
End of the Century is a love story drenched in a nostalgic magical realism that constantly shifts its own logic, as if recognizing the futility of containing its uncontainable romance.
By Jason Ooi FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 15, 2019
End of the Century is at its best whenever Castro keeps things thematically and temperamentally woozy.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 15, 2019
The measured ordinariness of its first section has been a sly setup for a poetic film that handles narrative as a kind of scarf dance.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 15, 2019
Castro’s feature-length directorial debut is a profound and casually artful expression of the lengths to which people go in order to not have to embody their desires.
By Ed Gonzalez FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 26, 2020
It balances what is with what might have been and what could still be, and, although the result is maybe a bit less substantial than Castro intended, there is a certain literary elegance in the way he sketches it out.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
6.5
55% Positive
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27% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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55% Positive
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27% Mixed
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18% Negative
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Release Date Aug 16, 2019
Duration 1 h 24 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Chéries-Chéris
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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