From Afar (2015)

Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.

Director:

Lorenzo Vigas

Writers:

Lorenzo Vigas (screenplay), Guillermo Arriaga (based on a story by)

Stars:

Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla

10 wins & 26 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Alfredo Castro	...	Armando
Luis Silva	...	Elder
Jericó Montilla	...	Amelia
Catherina Cardozo	...	Maria
Jorge Luis Bosque	...	Fernando
Greymer Acosta	...	Palma
Auffer Camacho	...	Mermelada
Ivan Peña	...	Yoni
Joretsis Ibarra	...	Deysi
Yeimar Peralta	...	Yerlin
Scarlett Jaimes	...	Yuli
Ernesto Campos	...	Kleiber
Marcos Moreno	...	Manuel
Armando Volcanes	...	Padrino quinceañera
Jesús Las Rosas	...	Roca

Storyline

Armando, a middle-aged owner of a Caracas dental prosthesis business, is estranged from his father, who he observes occasionally from a distance. He finds a young man of the streets who negotiates a fee high enough for the boy to be used to provide Armando's masturbatory object. Although a following encounter ends in a beating for Armando, he continues to make the boy dependent. What is the final result that Armando desires? Is it something more than a conflicted relationship with a hustler?

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Plot Keywords:

beating | bare chested male | gay | male nudity | male rear nudity | 

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Unrated

Did You Know?

Trivia

First feature of Lorenza Vigas.

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Soundtracks

Kuss-Walzer op. 400
by Johann Strauss
(1881).

User Reviews

From Afar

I am not going to describe the plot of the film as you have read that in other reviews and in the film synopsis. This film was recently shown in London and I really wonder who writes the reviews for such movies or even worse who are the bodies who give them prices in some festivals...It was a disaster, the audience was packed and in the first 40 minutes within the movie I noticed people leaving the auditorium. I was feeling the same but I was in a middle place so I decided to endure. They did have a good plot for a film but there was no script, all monosyllabic interventions and the worst of silence in movies is NO MUSIC. How important to have some back music to enhance a silence. But silence, no dialogues and no music all the time, becomes soporific. Literally at times it felt that I was watching a security camera recording. There was no acting, apart from the face expressions of the main characters in certain scenes, well difficult to act if you have nothing to say most of the time...The message in that movie could have been better portrayed: a sad middle age gay man confused and frustrated with his own life and the way he dealt with his sexual desires, together with young men desperate to make a living in a horrid "machista" society with no hopes for a better financial future. From a technical point of view the camera angles and the focus did not work as intended, you can sense that if you are familiar with the technicalities of movie making. Whoever was in charge of the camera did a LOUSY job. I would not recommend it, but is a clear example of a BAD MOVIE, which will only be remembered, if, for the punishment caused to viewers.

Details

Country:

Venezuela Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

2 September 2016 (Venezuela)

Also Known As:

From Afar

Filming Locations:

Caracas, Venezuela

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$5,136, 12 June 2016

Gross USA:

$30,169

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$150,443

Company Credits

Production Co:

Factor RH Producciones, Malandro Films, Lucia Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

D-Cinema 48kHz 5.1 D-Cinema 48kHz 7.1

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.66 : 1