Isao is ten years old. He is gay and fully aware that such sensibility will get him in a lot of trouble with everyone around him. His mother wants him to be an Olympic swimmer, like his father was. Along with the complicity of his childhood best friend, Aleciram, a smart, sassy and faithful cohort, they embark on a journey of self discovery and coming of age in very unusual ways: through a near death experience.
Rich with mystery and steeped in mythical superstition, this Mexican voyage into the world of the non-quite-dead finds new and fascinating ways to address the age old dilemma of being an outcast. Slightly reminiscent of Ma Vie En Rose’s Ludovic, Isao likes to dress up, carry a doll, and dreams of being a famous fashion designer in Paris. Left for dead after an unsavory encounter with a pederast gym teacher, little gay boy Isao wakes up in a bizarrely quiet hospital staffed by a single nurse and an unseen administrator. Suddenly joined by a confused lawyer with a bullet wound to the head, young Isao seeks out answers from the cryptic nurse, from his strange new companion, and from within himself. As their stories unfold in Limbo (the waiting room between heaven and hell), Isao’s best friend holds vigil over his still-breathing body, along with a blind janitor who knows a thing or two about displaced ghosts. In a coming-of-age experience befitting his unique temperament, Isao’s voyage into maturity takes place not in the confines of the physical world, but in the unknowable realm of an out-of-body experience.
Thanks to leetboys for posting about this in the milkboard and to Alejandro Morales for the review.
“Yo tengo un dicho: toda la gente es bisexual hasta que se demuestre lo contrario” hahaha, good saying.
i can’t speek or read a word of spanish end even then i think that movie trailer looks great. think it’s the music that really makes it work.
:) thanks for the peolple who helped find this <3
Oh damn. Its not avaliable for download when purchesed :/ Sigh.
Esta pelicula se ve muy interesante, definitivamente interesado en verla, cuando aparezca “online” favor de postear el link =).
Wow.
Why isn’t this on IMDB?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1308967/
also available for pre-order at Amazon.
Don’t forget Isao is played by Fátima Díaz … a girl, btw. At least you can ignore it, but it looses a bit of it’s authenticity and atmosphere in my opinion.
It looks beautiful ^o^
A 10 year old is not gay… experimental maybe, but if he chooses to be gay when he is 17 or 18, then perhaps, but it is annoying to hear this. That and it is a girl in the movie, not a boy… and NO girl can act like a boy feels. It is just plain silly.
Yeah… sure… lol
lol.. “sure…” :) <3 josh
oh hey.. i just noticed that my gravatar finally works. :D horay for internets.
To say that a person can not be gay at ten is to throw out years of psychological, sociological, and behavioral research. To people who are into those fields, it’s almost like saying sex and gender are the same because that’s what you heard. Basically, it’s just really annoying in it’s ignorant certainty.
But more on subject, I don’t think the movie looks any good. There are so many good movies coming from Spain and Mexico (DUCK SEASON!), but this one just looks like a Spanish soap opera filmed on a handheld recorder bought from Ikea. And yes, I think the cinematography is so bad that it is shot on film from a store that doesn’t even sell cameras.
I can’t order it :(
It’s not on Amazon UK, and you can’t buy stuff from TLA without a credit card… damn only having a debit card!
About the debate whether a 10yo can be ‘gay’ or not…
Of course he can, since all gays didnt start heterosexual.
One can feel a very clear attraction at that age, for a boy or a girl. It can also include less platonic elements.
But…having said that, ‘being gay’ consciously as a choice, in opposition to being hetero, is not credible, as seems to be portrayed in the film.
We seem to see more an adult’s interpretation, adult directing, and adult ideals, than what an actual 10 year-old would feel, or act like ..especially in Mexico.
(admittedly only from the trailer) it seems to me someone is just trying to ride the wave of ‘Blossoming of Massimo’ – which in that case feels real, and adding a ‘undead’ plot to ensure sales…
He’ll probably laugh all the way to the bank!
whats that for a song?
‘Every day should be a holiday’ from the Dandy Warhols. Fun song. :-)
I just rented this at BlockBuster here in Mexico, it’s not an awesome movie, but it’s good, as someone here said before, there are other mexican movies so much better than this one like Duck Season or “Y tu mamá también”.
It was nice for $3 =)