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En Tu Ausencia
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I would love to see this movie. Does anyone knows where I can download it? I dont think it will arrive in stores very soon, if it is going to.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/En-Ausencia-DVD-Region-NTSC/dp/B001F114IA/
Wow this kid is incredibly cute. It is unreal.
Available through Netflix in USA. Just ordered.
Oh mama, loving the second to last one.
Are you stalking me? I JUST checked this out on Azov Films site the other day thinking of buying it.
Ta! Too soft: Vampires and blood-sucking aliens, that’s the only way to go for a real coming of age… ;-)
A couple of cannon-fodder horror movie boys on the dummy blog http://tlsetest.blogspot.com. ;-)
This boi is definitely cute! And a nice body! I’m with Olshan; the next to the last pic is hot; just
wish that it showed a little bush. Would like to see alot more of him.
http://www.culturagay.net/2009/04/en-tu-ausencia/
You have done well Josh. You have done well.
:)
SUPERB movie.
What do I have to do to see the movie? How do I do it?
Thanx!!!!! Pls make the directions SIMPLE!!!
http://www.culturagay.net/2009/04/en-tu-ausencia/en-tu-ausencia-03/ in that picture the cute boy looks like a young girl.
@Paul: Nice pic, already 21 visits from milkboy to culturagay via your post…
@Lonnie: Don’t even try illegal downloads, legal used copies start at $2.60 on amazon.com. You can also get Netflix for 1 month for free since you are in the States.
Hope the director Iván Noel still follows milkboy, so he can update us if he could buy back his house…
Last year’s thread
Thanks guys from me and from Gonzalo for your comments.
Can’t add much to what i already said in other postings. Just that things are moving fast with my 2nd film ‘Brecha’ (trailer on youtube), which has just signed to be released in theatres in Spain ( a zero budget film!!). The other news is the 3-film deal I signed with a large production co. Though my 3rd film (july) will be a light comedy look at the 7-8 year old age group in school, the following one (summer 2010) is what some here might have been waiting for, for a long time. I’ll just have to take some pages of the script when I hand it over :-) It’ll be called ‘Todos Tenemos Secretos’ (’We All Have Secrets’).
Ivan, I just wondered: How many millicents do you get from one Netflix or European rental, compared to a DVD sale?
That might help people understand why it is so important to support indie movies and not piracy.
Anyways, thanks so much for these realistic Coming of Age movies, it is so rare to find movies about and for teenagers that do not involve fantasy and CGI FX monsters (the real life ones are scary enough ;-), or being set up in a non-contemporary age of dragons and vikings, or yippy hoppy happy stories…
I mean, I love movies such as Pan’s Labyrinth (another Spanish success) as a work of fiction, but I’d rather give my support to modern life movies such as En Tu Ausencia. I see that North America directors are catching up with Jet Boy, Twelve And Holding, etc.
Too bad most of these are dramas, but that’s the emo air du temps, I guess.
I already rented the movie in netflix, and I will buy it to support the cuase, but the movie was released in the U.S. CENSORED. There are 20 minutes missing from the movie, and I think it will help me understand the ending better. Because I didn’t see any sexual abuse of any kind in the movie, and I don’t understand the slogan of a lost innocence, and the ending.
Not sure what censorship you mean, I have or had the Amazon and Netflix copies, they are both 99 minutes long (or a bit more), which is also what imdb indicates.
True, they sometimes release R-rated versions of intl movies, like they did for “Y Tu Mamá También”, but the unrated versions are usually more common and it does not look like they released different versions in the States.
Your viewing was spoiled if you were expecting sexual abuse (the reviews can be misleading and there are indeed some ambiguous images even in the trailer), that’s not what the “lost innocence” was about. Maybe watch it again for what it is and you’ll appreciate it better. Reviews and comments are as many spoilers, empty your mind of them before immersing yourself fully in this great movie and its wonderful music: Yes, like a true Renaissance man, Iván Noel also composed and played the music!
there is a version that was 120 minutes. the ones in amazon and netflix are 99 min.
Amazon has 2 versions. One is 99 min. long and the other (with the mostly white cover) is listed as “136 min.” But it is most definitely NOT 136 min. long. It is, in fact, as far as I can tell, the exact same version as the 99 min. disc I rented from Blockbuster online.
It looks like a misprint on the jacket of both DVDs: The Amazon web site lists the movie as 99 minutes long on the 2008 copy and 136 minutes on the 2009 copy, but the movie on both DVDs is 99 minutes long (1h39), although both jackets show 136 minutes “approximate time” (even the 2008 jacket).
So it looks like the 2008 and 2009 copies show the same version of the movie indeed, not two. My guess is a misprint of 1h36 as 136 minutes, even though 99 minutes is more like 1h39 really, or more precisely 1h40m23s, according to both KMP and Windows Media Player.
The extras do not amount to the difference, so it’s not that either. Well, there you have it, the mystery around En Tu Ausencia… ;-)
This is one of the best movies I have even seen. Not only the photography is breathtaking, the story about the boy and his relationship with the strange guy that arrives in the city is amazing and disturbing. I am not going to spoil for the ones that still haven’t seen it, but when you do, pay attention to the transitions between the peaceful and disturbing scenes, they alternate, and you will find yourself enjoying a peaceful moment with the beautiful boy masturbating, and a disturbing moment of city people talking… the director was very succesfull!
And on top of all of this, Gonzalo is very cute!
Un mensaje por Sñr Ivan Noel. Primero pido las disculpas por mi español. Como hombre ingles, viviendo en españa, he buscado en varios tiendas (como El Corte Ingles, Fnac etc) una copia de tu DVD pero hasta ahora, no lo he encontrado en ningún sitio. Me puedes decir si sale el DVD en las tiendas ó si tengo que pedirlo por el internet. Me gustaria mucho a comprarlo.
Un saludo
El Zorro
Good luck with that, Zorro:
Por desgracia, dadas las dificultades de distribución del cine español, este film independiente no se estrenó en salas, pasando directamente al mercado de DVD en Estados Unidos.
Source: http://www.culturagay.net/2009/04/en-tu-ausencia
Te ruego no ‘bajarla’ como dices pero hacer un esfuerzo para comprarla a traves alguna tienda online. Cuesta solo 8 euros en algunos sitios.
Source: Iván Noel himself on yahoo.com (this guy is everywhere ;-)
The only DVD produced is in NTSC format but is all-region and will play on all European DVD players/computers. Maybe a job opportunity for you to import/resell it in Spain, hard to believe no shop does it already. Perhaps check the gay outlets/libraries instead of the traditional Spanish retail or online stores you mentioned.Por desgracia indeed…
Hi Chimel
Thanks for the info, although I had already found both of those links as part of my search. I want to pay for a DVD as I am keen to support this type of small film maker. I am aware of the financial risks that Ivan Noel took to make this film and if we want people such as him to continue making great films, it is only fair that we give our support, both financially and otherwise. Have to say that given the film was made in Spain, I would be surprised if it were not available in some way here. Guess I will have to keep looking. Maybe I should just drive down and knock on his door and ask for a signed copy !!! :-)
Anyway, thanks again for the response.
El Zorro
¡Hola Iván! me ha sorprendido mucho verte por aquí y me alegro de q seas visitante de este blog ;)
Hace poco vi tu película y me gustaron muchas cosas de ellas, y la valentí aconla q tratas el tema q trata, incluyendo el de la homosexualidad infantil, q casi no se ha tocado en el cine. Y me gustó mucho en todos los sentidos tu jovencito protagonista, Gonzalo, gracias al cula esta peli se comenta en este blog ;). Me has orependido q hables en plural agradeciendo los comentarios; ¿soys pareja?. Si es así q suerte tienes ;)
Oye, y Brecha, tu siguiente film, ya acabado, ¿se puede ver en algçún sitio on-line?. Gracias.
I was so mad/sad that at the ending of this movie. I liked it anyway.
what is the name of the movie this cute boy is in?
Hi there,
I am also a little out of touch, out of touch with these posts in this site, sorry…
1) Re the length of the film. As far as I am aware, there is NO other version other than the 99min one. I do believe the 134min version was a printing mistake. The directors cut IS 134mins long, but has never been released, to my knowledge.
2) Was the film censored? Censorship takes place from the moment the film is written. One cannot write all of reality in a script because child actors live in our western society. I used to masturbate on trees as a kid. I guess that was both odd and interesting. But can I tell that?
Censorship also happens during a shoot. Editors and other responsible people will choose certain shots according to what they feel is ‘acceptable’.
Then there is the censorship at the distribution level. Yes the film did have more daring scenes in its first cut, but ones that were almost automatically manipulated to avoid ‘problems’.
There was nudity, but, finally, the decision not to include it was taken by myself on the basis that what this nudity MEANT in the script, the use it had in the storyline, would simply get completely lost to other ways of seeing the scene which are specific to out society and time (anything from disgust, shock, outrage, to calling the cops). It was narratively just not worth wrecking the natural rhythm of the film for this. In the 70’s in France this would have fitted in well into the story, not nowadays …But, well, even with the ‘gentle’ version, people in England STILL walked out on it!
3) Piracy: someone above asked me to explain how much money we indie directors/producers/writers make from a film, in order to make people understand the bad of pirating a movie. The fact is, I did sell my house and belongings to make this film, and I have not earned ANYTHING back on it at all yet.
The facts are simple: my film can be downloadable even viewable anywhere for no money at all. I have lost all I had in the belief it was a good idea making this film. Piracy totally destroys such projects.
I am sickened, absolutely appalled by those so-called ‘defensors’ of freedom who claim it is a good idea to ’share’ files online. They are despicable, ignorant people. Sure these big companies need to be woken up to their abuses, but I am a perfect example of one whose Art has been wrecked by pirates from the start, before my career could even start properly.
I am VERY grateful to those who actually purchased the DVD, and for their support, but there are 4 google pages where one can buy or rent my film, and about 40 pages where one can downlaod it without paying a thing.
The sort of honest, independent, risqué movie that some people here would like to see, and me (or another) to make, simply wont happen because of piracy.
My only hope is that even more people will support such films as I make, when my 2nd feature ‘Brecha’ comes out soon (trailer youtube)