Saturday, June 22, 2019

Fin de siglo (End of the Century)

Fin de siglo (End of the Century), dir. Lucio Castro, 2019, Argentina, 84m, in (Castilian) Spanish with English subtitles • West Coast première 👌
Friday, June 21, 9:30 pm, Castro Theatre
Saturday, June 29, 9:30 pm, Victoria Theatre

Fin de siglo
(End of the Century)
Ocho (Juan Barberini, left) and Javi (Ramón Pujol) meet in present-day Barcelona and retire to Ocho’s AirBnB, where they come to realize that they met twenty years earlier, just before Y2K. The story then interweaves the present day with their mem­o­ries of 1999 and some “what might have been” projections of how the intervening years could have unfolded differently.

The connection between Ocho and Javi is palpable in all three phases, even as the narrative thread becomes blurred between them. Some of the blurring is quite intentional, playing out as the characters’ memories of past events rather than a recreation of the events themselves. It’s well done, although the sex scenes felt cold and detached in contrast to the smoldering intensity of the rest of their liaisons. Recommended.


IMDbtrailer (YouTube) • West Coast première •

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