Saturday, June 16, 6:30 p.m. Castro
BAY AREA PREMIERE
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| Mario |
In the town of Thun, Switzerland, 25 km south of Bern, Mario (Max Hubacher, pictured, 2nd from the left) is a promising young footballer (soccer player), playing for the local Under 21 team and angling to go big-league pro. His team brings in Leon (Aaron Altaras, pictured, far left), a star player from Hanover, Germany, and then assigns the two to share an apartment. Most of the team is jealous of the newcomer, but Mario and Leon get along well on the field and even better off. However, with teams and sponsors still wary of “controversy,” they can’t openly be paramours, so Mario and Leon must choose between career and true love. American audiences likely won’t notice the language barrier between Leon, who speaks German, and most of the other characters, who speak a dialect of Swiss German called Bärndütsch, not at all the same thing.
The soccer players are gorgeous, fit guys, all but the two leads actual professional or semi-pro players. Hubacher and Altaras capture the nuances of the progression from initial attraction to the intoxication of coupling to the bleak reality of the dilemma they face: follow your heart or follow your vocation? It’s beautifully filmed, even the soccer scenes (and I say that as an American who barely knows a penalty kick from an own goal), but the emotional predicament takes center stage; the eye candy is icing on the cake. Definitely a MUST SEE.
The soccer players are gorgeous, fit guys, all but the two leads actual professional or semi-pro players. Hubacher and Altaras capture the nuances of the progression from initial attraction to the intoxication of coupling to the bleak reality of the dilemma they face: follow your heart or follow your vocation? It’s beautifully filmed, even the soccer scenes (and I say that as an American who barely knows a penalty kick from an own goal), but the emotional predicament takes center stage; the eye candy is icing on the cake. Definitely a MUST SEE.
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