End of the Century [DVD]

For me, all art forms should be viewed, read, listened to without anyone else's view of it. If you read what someone else says they have already confined your view. I found this film annoying at the start as it was 3/4 minutes worth of traffic noise and cars whizzing past. then there wasn't any dialogue into about 15 minutes of the film.The only way to know what exactly the film is about would be to ask the writer what his intentions were in writing this.The two main characters never age throughout the whole process and the main setting, an Air B&B apartment, stays the same. The only difference is that when Ocho arrives the fridge is empty as is the apartment. Later the fridge becomes full and the apartment 'lived in'.All I would say about the film is that for me the film was a fantasy with the main character imagining a scenario where life develops with the stranger he first sees from his balcony. As he's a poet that would be easy for him to do.As this is my personal interpretation of the film, I found it frustrating because I couldn't decide where the fantasy began. For example, as a stranger in a city would you lean over your balcony and invite someone up into your apartment and the other party immediately goes there? Then there's a conversation...hello, I'm Ocho, Hello I'm Javi. I'm a poet and live in New York. I'm in tv and I live in Berlin. Okay lets go and have rampant sex in the bedroom. The conversation was exactly that brief, but there wasn't much more to it. Now I realise most people's view of homosexual men is that's what happens, I don't think it does...unless you're using a site specifically designed for that purpose and they aren't necessarily homosexuals who use those sites. That section didn't make sense to me and didn't ring true. The other part which didn't ring true for me was when Javi tells Ocho they had met before. Ocho doesn't remember, although this was the first real experience for both of them. Don't people always remember their first? Perhaps not, although I do.The only other thing I would point out is that the first time Ocho spots Javi he is wearing a black "Kiss" (the group) tee shirt, dark shorts, possibly green, white socks and trainers. It's daytime. The last shot we see of Javi, it's night time, but he's still wearing the same outfit...black tee shirt, shorts, socks and trainersIt's an interesting film and I think it's well worth watching. It made me think, which is something. It's not the usual boy meets boy, they get together, their sexuality is discovered, they separate, one dies tragically or is beaten up or is sent into eternal damnation. The sort of " aren't homosexual people very sad" type of genre so prevalent in modern film. The sexual scenes aren't what I would classify as overt, although it probably isn't a film you'd watch with your gran !!Watch this film and make of it what you will. Your own interpretation is as valid as anyone else's. If I like a poem, painting, play, book, film etc and it does something for me, it makes no difference if my interpretation is correct or not. It's art. Art should speak to us and we should not be told what is good or bad or what it means. IMO

“Fin de ciglo” has quickly established itself on my short list of the best queer films ever made. It is up there with “God’s Own Country,” and two from Argentina: “Plata quemada” (“Burnt Money”) from 2000, and “Hawaii” from the incredible Marco Berger (the best queer filmmaker of the century?) from 2013. I don’t care much for the Hollywood all-star attempts at the genre: even if Jack Twist asked Ennis del Mar to call him by his name, he’d still be dead!I just wanted to clear up some technical questions that I read here before buying the DVD (I contacted the distributor for clarification on the information not supplied by Amazon).I bought the edition produced by Saffron Hill Films. This is the one to go for!Most important: it is not censored. The luscious sex scenes are intact, hence the “18” rating.If you have downloaded the film and checked the running time against that listed for this DVD there is a notable difference. The film was shot in NTSC format and runs 01:23:54. When NTSC material is re-mastered for PAL, it speeds up slightly, so the DVD has a running time of 01:20:28. I synchronised and compared the two versions and there is no difference in content.Also the Saffron Hill Films edition has hard-coded English subtitles, and they are large enough that you don’t have to squint to read them and miss out on the onscreen action.Finally, the DVD contains two short films by director Lucio Castro as bonus features, as well as a selection of trailers for a bunch of other queer films (I have to say that “And Then We Danced” – from Georgia of all places! – is quite spectacular, and a miracle that it got made in such an openly homophobic country).

From what I could understand (very little, as I don’t speak the lingo) it was good. Entirely watchable. The guys were hot. They had some nice chemistry. There’s some fairly eye opening gay sex scenes. If I understood correctly, they don’t end up together at the end. There are German subtitles, but my deutsch is even less good than my Spanish. The film runs for a brief 1 hour and 20 minutes. And the disc plays on my uk bought blu ray player.

It's slow, the past and the present . The main character is alone! I need to watch it again but I bought it, I think don't buy this film.

A wistful, nostalgic film about what could have been - I enjoyed this.

Thoroughly enjoyed, more than I would expected if I had read screenplay. Thought acting excellent and some of the camerawork pushed you to think. Nudity and sex were important part of story and not titillation.

Beautiful film, not sure why it was 18 certificate