A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky
(2003)
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A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky
(2003)
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Salvador Alvarez | ... |
Susana
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Gloria Andrade | ... |
Girl
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Llane Fragoso | ... |
Mirella
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Manuel Grapain Zaquelarez | ... |
Jorge
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Martha Gómez | ... |
Martha
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Rosa María Gómez | ... |
Mary
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Marcos Hernández | ... |
Boy
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Salvador Hernández | ... |
Antonio
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Perla De La Rosa | ... |
Anna
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Miguel Loaiza | ... |
Adrián
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Pablo Molina | ... |
Andrés
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Mario Oliver | ... |
Umberto
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Juan Carlos Ortuño | ... |
Gerardo
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Clarissa Rendón | ... |
Nadia
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Pilar Ruíz | ... |
Lola
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Gerardo, a 17-year old guy has just finished his relationship with Bruno and starts wandering hopeless through the streets of the city. In his wandering he's tortured by images: each masculine body he sees reminds him of his lover. Gerardo is determined to keep what's left of his dying love. The only comfort he has is a letter that Bruno left him with his boss. Written by U.W.
A terrible deception: controversial film, winner of the Teddy in Berlin 2003, Mil nubes de paz turned out to be a fiasco. The actors are all reciting (well, they are not exactly actors); the film tried to be a high bet but ends up being a doubtful bet: it stays in the superficiality of two guys kissing and a guy whose lover is gone; it has no purpose: nothing to do with the homo-sexuality presented in other films (e.g. Before Night Falls (2000) by Julian Schnabel). Technically the only thing that works is the photography; otherwise, the camera is put in strange angles (to make it more `art-film') and the whole film runs in a black and white atmosphere. The film is so pretentious that bothers. I mean, it's good to be pretentious when you have talent to support it. Or maybe it is that it's so art-cinema that it's incomprehensible. The story flows slowly, slowly, slowly. To me, more form than essence. Superb edition? It was good. Superb direction? Don't think so: the film is weak. It was an interesting project. It's a shame. It's a flaw. One star out of four.