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Ronny & i (2013)
Insightful portrayal of an evolving male-male intimacy
"Ronny & i" is a deeply moving and masterfully erotic story of two twenty-something life-long male best friends coming to terms with one announcing his love for the other. Writing, acting and editing are way above average for a low-budget short. The tight script and the actors' near perfect naturalistic styles draw you into this deeply intimate and entirely feasible portrayal of how the two of them navigate this challenge to their friendship. The editing is brisk where it needs to be but scenes are also allowed to linger so the viewer can absorb what is happening both on the surface and at the deeper levels of these two rich characters.
The film was recorded entirely on a hand-held iPhone 5, but you won't notice or care because the camera, via lots of ECUs, transports the viewer into the middle of the characters' process. We see and hear exactly what these two young guys are experiencing as they absorb this newly revealed dynamic in their relationship. The story will grip you until the final scene, at which point you'll wish it wasn't over.
El cielo dividido (2006)
A masterpiece
Brilliant. Masterful. Insightful. Courageous. Cinematically exceptional.
In "El Cielo Dividio" Julián Hernández takes the viewer on a frightening journey of love found, love lost and the inevitable painful changes this brings about. We so look to dialog to drive a story but here there are virtually no spoken words. Hernández tells this universal story with incredible attunement to the forbidding emotional road we must all traverse through the stages of loss, grief and transformation. Hernández knows the territory well, and likewise his actors exquisitely convey where they are in their individual processes through facial expressions, body kinetics and subtleties of movement. If you can suspend your need for the characters to verbalize what they are feeling and simply allow yourself to be pushed into your own emotions, this film will definitely validate much of your own, very human, and mostly unspoken inner process of healing and metamorphosis.
Run and get this film!