This is a good Gay/Queer film and it was made in 2018, and yet I have the heavy responsibility of being the first to review and to really acknowledge its existence. The oblivion that so many LGBTQ films fall into is not good as I do not believe mainstram critics take this genre seriosly enough. That said I liked the film a lot, but not quite enough to be too enthusiastic. Basically it is a two person film within the confines of what to me seemed one room with occasional flashbacks to previous years of an eleven year love relationship; the years from the late 1970's to 1989, concentrating on the night in November when the Berlin Wall fell. Both are poor, and yet both seek the freedom to leave Spain which they feel is oppressive to Gay people. It is a marriage without a ceremony, and probably due to confinement through lack of money and continious arguments their relationship is on the point of rupture. The concept is good, but I found the repetitions just a little exhausting and tiresome. I know very little of Galicia or that they were using the Gallegan language. My fault for not doing my research on Galicia. The acting is good, and only faltered for me when a flasback of their first meeting in a gay club. For some reason I found it clumsy, and the drag act an unwelcome cliche. But the film portrays oppression extremely well, and it really does eat at the heart and the soul. The love scenes explicit, but nothing to frighten away sexually timid viewers. Once more in a review I mention Ingmar Bergman and his film/TV series ' Scenes from a Marriage '. This film is far better in my opinion and should be valued and seen.
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