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12/17/07
A Thousand Clouds Of Peace (2003)
31 %
Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 8 Rotten:18 Average Rating: 4.6/10
Synopsis: This breathtaking, quiet film about unrequited love explores new territory in gay cinema. Gerardo (Juan Carlos Artuno) is a 17-year-old guy seeking real love in a heartless big city. A series of one night stands, strange encounters, and bizarre pickups leads him into a miasma of confusion... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Juan Carlos Ortuno
Director: Julian Hernandez
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07/21/05
A sad, slow-moving tale, marked by literal as well as spiritual poverty.
08/08/04
Julián Hernández has ... a film that will remain in memory for along time for anyone who knows the ecstasy of early love suddenly dissolved by unaccountable abandonment.
07/31/04
A ponderous, quiet little mess that has nothing to say and no idea how to say it anyway.
07/03/04
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07/03/04
A self-consciously arty piece that may be psychologically useful to its writer-director but is torture for its audience.
06/20/04
Mr. Hernández's attempt to put an interior landscape on film a la Pasolini may seem stultifying and pretentious, but it's also a brave dark experiment.
06/17/04
Hernandez's desire to utilize all the armaments of the filmmaker hits the viewer with a visceral force.
05/04/04
Top Critic
Combined with the careful posing, enigmatic action and flowery language, it all amounts to something less than an 80-minute Calvin Klein advertisement.
04/16/04
Self-indulgent in the extreme, Julian Hernandez's laconic ode to heartbreak feels like the work of a lovelorn teenager.
04/16/04
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