here there are no signs of gay life, just men as men. These two men must battle each other over land and respect. Alvaro must live his life as he does, going from one encounter to the next. El Turu works to hide his secret and earn his crew s respect.
Santigo Otheguy s feature film is ground breaking by Argentinean standards. Never before has such an beautiful and erotic film been made about men who openly share thier feelings, both mental and physical. A must not just for gay audiences, but for all film buffs alike.

Review

a sumptuous film about swirling desire --Nathan Lee - The New York Times

Hauntingly beautiful --Timeout New York

36:T5d4,La Leon (the name of a boat, not a camp stage-name) is a beautifully filmed study of a quiet but engaging man and his life in a remote community in Argentina. The story is told quite elliptically, with minimal dialogue, which I found very effective, letting the images do most of the work. These are very beautiful, quite dark, and filmed in a kind of saturated black and white. The atmosphere is both charged, and slack in tempo, so that we really have time to look at the composition of the shots. It reminded me of the photographs of Jan Koudelka, even though they are taken in a completely different part of the world. There is a sense of the beauty of faces and of local customs. Alvaro, the main character, has a very soulful look and I found his face wonderful to contemplate, as is his quiet humanity. It means that certain events do register with their full, if unspoken, weight. And I liked the very 'organic' approach to the character's sexuality. The fact he is gay is certainly important in terms of what happens and his relation to the community, but it emerges in a natural way, neither prudishly edited nor played up to make the film sexier. This spirit of truth, and its being hard to get at in spite of the surface simplicity of the lives shown, is what guides the film, and makes it quite un