George Steane

Şerifi, silahlı kovboyları, tozlu çölü ve parlak renkleriyle Almodóvar usulü kuir bir western, gözalıcı bir kısa sürpriz… 1910 yılında geçen filmde bir adam çölü aşarak yirmi beş yıldır görmediği eski dostunu ziyaret eder. Geceyi birlikte geçirseler de ikisinin de asıl amacı farklıdır. Cannes’da özel bir gösterimde dünya prömiyerini yapan Strange Way of Life‘ın ortak yapımcılarından biri Saint Laurent ve renkli kostüm tasarımlarının esin kaynakları da James Stewart’tan Kirk Douglas’a erkek oyuncuların Hollywood filmlerinde giydikleri. Amalia Rodrigues’in filmle aynı adı taşıyan fadosundan esinlenen Almodóvar’ın yıldız oyuncu kadrosuyla da ayrıca parlayan yeni filminin çekimleri, Sergio Leone’nin meşhur spagetti western’lerini çektiği İspanya’daki Tabernas de Almería çölünde yapıldı.

Javi and Dani go around the city trying to sell a stolen painting.

Inspired by films like “L’inconnu du lac” and “O Ornitólogo”, director Valentino R. Sandoli has created “Cruising,” a film that explores desire, erotism and flesh, using an almost voyeuristic style that mixes together with oneiric images that provides a metaphysic tone to the story. A man meets a group of young men while bathing in a lake at the end of summer, and he immediately falls for one of them, who seems to shine with his own light. He follows them into the woods, where he watches them as he finds them in different groups and sex scenes, until he arrives to the one he fell for.

Juan is 26 years old and has terminal cancer. He is confined in the hospital but he’s tired of feeling sick. So, one night, he decides to escape, with the help of his friend, Marta. Juan wishes to spend a normal night, like any other. He wants to drink with his friends, play table soccer, some darts, smoke a joint while the sun goes down but most importantly he wants to feel that everything else doesn’t exist… He wants to feel the time go by, no rush, just being with the ones he loves the most. That is his farewell. Really living one last night. But leaving just like that is not easy, and not everyone will agree with it. Because, sometimes, happiness also tears you apart.

The viral video of a Christian pop group made up of several sisters has an enormous effect on the life of Enric, a man tormented by a childhood marked by religious fanaticism and the yoke of a mother with messianic delirium.