All six of these short films show what happens when two men, presumably straight but not necessarily, get close up, then closer, in intimate situations. Sexual tension. A volatile atmosphere. One gets a tattoo, another bunks with a cousin of his friend, one meets, yes, a handyman. Very talented young directors, Marcelo Monaco and Marco Berger take the interactions just a bit further than perhaps any of the men expect or want. Some of these are witty and fun. Others more serious. All quite tense for the viewer. I think that the best part is the way they play with the viewer's mind and expectations. Good homoerotica is not necessarily all bells and whistles, if you get my drift. Berger is the writer and director of Plan B, a very successful feature that has many of the same qualities. Two men meet and find a more intense connection than they expected. Both film makers are masters of the pregnant pause, the unspoken word, the subtle non-verbal signal, the awkward silence. Both directors are great photographers and compose their slow dances of intimacy in a very beautiful and satisfying way. For those looking for explicit sex, go elsewhere. For those who like the unconscious seduction, the slow revelation of feelings and, eventually, some nice outcomes, be patient. Enjoy the process. Each of these shorts will be pleasing and satisfying in their own way. Some more than others but all are worth watching all the way through. Maybe twice over.
10 Reviews
Too close for comfort? Six shorts, two directors, 12 men in close quarters
earl-rose4 February 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Movie Lived up to its name
floormankbh21 November 2013
This was thoroughly enjoyable and I found its full of sexual suspense without allowing to much graphical sex etc. This is something I have experienced many times in my own life with friends where a simple gesture, movement locking of eyes, looking at each other in the locker rooms or even close bodily contact like hugging and sharing a bath together and the sharing of beds when sleeping over, sets off a remarkable "electric sensation". Its not about being gay its about the feelings men sometime have for each other unintentionally and they cannot put a name to it. In this movie I experienced that again. I have to say Marco Berger really does a fabulous job. This was a deja vu for me. I would love him to do the same again allowing a bit more sexual interaction in full view but with the same innocence as in this movie. I would really look forward to that
More than a eye candy movie
Garcwrites6 May 2020
Going in I seriously thought that it would be eye candy the movie, which it kind of is, but it's more than that.
Despite the title and the subject matter it doesn't have a lot of steam, instead it's just a movie that rings true. No mater what your sexuality is you might have found yourself in one or more of the situations depicted here. It might be just the one time or multiple but these will look familiar to men.
There is some kind of sameness or better yet, a sense of unfinish business but it's a sexuality tension collection of short not romance and/or full on port.
Enjoy @garcwrites
Despite the title and the subject matter it doesn't have a lot of steam, instead it's just a movie that rings true. No mater what your sexuality is you might have found yourself in one or more of the situations depicted here. It might be just the one time or multiple but these will look familiar to men.
There is some kind of sameness or better yet, a sense of unfinish business but it's a sexuality tension collection of short not romance and/or full on port.
Enjoy @garcwrites
last segment
sebbod3223 December 2012
The muscular cute guy , the one with the blue eyes , who appears in the last segment "Training" (under the name Jorge Carossia),is actually a porn actor and a male prostitute in Buenos Aires. He performs in the movie "Latin Lover Amateurs " by Adonis Pictures (as Alejandro) having sex with porn star Rod Barry. You can see him first receiving oral sex from Rod and then getting f*cked doggy and missionary style by Rod like a .... Really bad a mainstream actor should not perform in porn and porn performers never should play in mainstream because people from the "business are people not worth do that. The rest of the film is OK. Speacilly the first segment I find that so sweet. Francisco Ortiz is really handsome but so conceited, and the other guy taking a shower with him is really a hunk and very hung as well.... Nice..flick
Tension, Yes, but Also Frustration
pauleky5 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
The short films in this collection certainly provide a lot of sexual tension. The guys are hot and most of them acquit themselves well as actors. However, with vignette after vignette providing no obvious consummation, it became increasingly frustrating and less fun. See it for the guys, but be prepared to see desire - yours and theirs - unfulfilled
Sexual Tension: Volatile "the Art of Teasing men until their balls turn blue or fall off" LOL.
SBlues29 April 2013
Warning: Spoilers
I give this series of short Homoerotic films 4 stars for the cute "eye candy" and for the half-hearted attempts at writing & directing.
This series of short films is like all of Marco Berger's other film work, purposely set up to TEASE and FRUSTRATE the single gay viewers. Yes, there is a 2nd Director Credited as well but I'm focusing on what appears to be a continuation of the type of films Marco Berger is fixated on.
Marco Berger directs films (short and feature length) with similar scenarios where most of his Latino male lead characters are emotionally retarded. (See also his short film: The Watch)They meet and begin this endless teasing ritual. The characters are usually very tense, on the verge of being sexually frustrated, some are oddly speechless; either paralyzed with fear or too shy to move beyond just flirting with their soft or semi-hard penises and those awkward silent moments between each set of characters in every short film, is overkill.
Marco Berger also appears to have a fascination with young Latino men wearing only tight underwear which usually displays their soft or semi-erect penises either lying down or standing. Some of the characters are clearly seen squeezing their slight erections in front of the other characters, yet both characters play these teasing games with one another in such an unrealistic way. Who does that? No real horny gay man is going to go through all that trouble seducing the man, then pretends he's not interested or he suddenly becomes clueless once he realizes that the other guy is willing to have sex as well.
One final note about what I hate in artistic gay filmmakers these days is how some of them can shoot many of their sexual scenes well but the editing of those scenes always end on a incomplete manner. It's obvious they spend many hours shooting those scenes, getting enough footage but for some reason; they feel they have to heavily censor these scenes more than any other scene.
In the case of Marco Berger's films, he slowly builds up tension and anticipation within you, the viewer then he cuts to another scene. His films would be even more fulfilling and complete if he didn't feel sadistically inclined to always edit out the climactic scenes. Otherwise you are left to fill in the incomplete scenes yourself every time you watch his movies.
This series of short films is like all of Marco Berger's other film work, purposely set up to TEASE and FRUSTRATE the single gay viewers. Yes, there is a 2nd Director Credited as well but I'm focusing on what appears to be a continuation of the type of films Marco Berger is fixated on.
Marco Berger directs films (short and feature length) with similar scenarios where most of his Latino male lead characters are emotionally retarded. (See also his short film: The Watch)They meet and begin this endless teasing ritual. The characters are usually very tense, on the verge of being sexually frustrated, some are oddly speechless; either paralyzed with fear or too shy to move beyond just flirting with their soft or semi-hard penises and those awkward silent moments between each set of characters in every short film, is overkill.
Marco Berger also appears to have a fascination with young Latino men wearing only tight underwear which usually displays their soft or semi-erect penises either lying down or standing. Some of the characters are clearly seen squeezing their slight erections in front of the other characters, yet both characters play these teasing games with one another in such an unrealistic way. Who does that? No real horny gay man is going to go through all that trouble seducing the man, then pretends he's not interested or he suddenly becomes clueless once he realizes that the other guy is willing to have sex as well.
One final note about what I hate in artistic gay filmmakers these days is how some of them can shoot many of their sexual scenes well but the editing of those scenes always end on a incomplete manner. It's obvious they spend many hours shooting those scenes, getting enough footage but for some reason; they feel they have to heavily censor these scenes more than any other scene.
In the case of Marco Berger's films, he slowly builds up tension and anticipation within you, the viewer then he cuts to another scene. His films would be even more fulfilling and complete if he didn't feel sadistically inclined to always edit out the climactic scenes. Otherwise you are left to fill in the incomplete scenes yourself every time you watch his movies.
A Hot Teasing
Silitonga10 November 2013
When I found this movie, I don't know it was compilation at first. I was disappointing but after watched it segment to segment it turns good, even great.
I can't decided what is my best segment. Every segment perfectly great. great writing, great directing, and one of the most important great acting. I don't know if all of the actors are gay or straight but I think it doesn't matter because they played it very well and convincing.
I called it hot teasing because it's highly erotic approaching. They story run well and innovative in every segment. The best part of it, every main story per segment almost we can find in every day life. I like this approaching, make us feel close to what directors and actors want us to know. It could happen anytime and anywhere beyond our consciousness.
I can't decided what is my best segment. Every segment perfectly great. great writing, great directing, and one of the most important great acting. I don't know if all of the actors are gay or straight but I think it doesn't matter because they played it very well and convincing.
I called it hot teasing because it's highly erotic approaching. They story run well and innovative in every segment. The best part of it, every main story per segment almost we can find in every day life. I like this approaching, make us feel close to what directors and actors want us to know. It could happen anytime and anywhere beyond our consciousness.
Out of 6 shorts ...ONLY TWO are appropriate for the title
JJ-Chi20 February 2021
This is a collection of 6 short films ...so not much really develops. Before things get anywhere ...it's OVER!!
The first two were good and some sexual tension was evident. The third was fun to watch. I didn't find anything sexual nor any tension in the rest. None were VOLATILE by any means.
This is something I didn't need to watch.
The first two were good and some sexual tension was evident. The third was fun to watch. I didn't find anything sexual nor any tension in the rest. None were VOLATILE by any means.
This is something I didn't need to watch.
Sexual Tension: Volatile
CinemaSerf14 April 2023
This features a fairly unremarkable collection of six gay-themed short films that stretches from a young geeky guy infatuated with his very hunky tattooist through a visiting cousin causing some sexual tension and a shower-based feature that reminded me of a Christian Wilde video I saw years ago and... well you get the gist. Lots of lingering shower scenes, plenty of camerawork centred around the usually clad groin areas and, to be fair, an authentic mix of the good and not so good looking. The only stand-out one for me is the third film - which is actually quite entertaining. That features two friends who are helping to move one of them into a new apartment. The usual teasing conversations are going on about one of them never getting laid until he gets frustrated and demonstrates that much as he and his girlfriend love to have sex, he simply has difficulties getting a very large peg into an ordinary sized hole. Sightly embarrassed by his teasing, his friend decides to show him how his rather rough and tumble approach might not be the most effective (or romantic) and now proceeds to "train" him - in varying states of undress - how the couple might achieve their goal. That story raises a smile! Otherwise, the productions are all a bit basic and seen together the stories are all a little too soft-porn/voyeurist/fetishist for me. Still, the third one just about makes it all worth watching.
provocative
Kirpianuscus19 March 2021
Different life situations discovered in different versions. Friendship, fascination about other, help to the other, familiar situations. And the ball of feeligs as gift, more than the stories. no doubts, stories of sensuality, in different forms and levels but , more important, an admirable delicacy for each detail.
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