Caracas, one love

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Movie
German title Caracas, one love
Original title Desde allá
Country of production Venezuela , Mexico
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2015
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Lorenzo Vigas
script Lorenzo Vigas
(based on a story by Guillermo Arriaga )
production Guillermo Arriaga, Rodolfo Cova , Michel Franco , Lorenzo Vigas
camera Sergio Armstrong
cut Isabela Monteiro de Castro
occupation

Caracas, One Love (Original title: allá Desde , English-language Festival Title: From Afar ) is a feature film by Lorenzo Vigas from the year 2015 . The Venezuelan - Mexican co-production is based on a story by the Mexican author Guillermo Arriaga , which director Vigas reworked into a screenplay for his feature film debut. The film is about the lonely dental technician Armando (played by Alfredo Castro ), who wanders through the impoverished neighborhoods of the Venezuelan capital Caracas to seek contact with street boys. He meets Elder ( Luis Silva ), the violent leader of a street gang, who visibly falls in love with Armando.

Caracas, a love premiered on September 10, 2015 in the competition of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and won the festival's main prize with the Golden Lion . In Germany, the film was released in cinemas on June 30, 2016.

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Caracas, in the present: Armando is a wealthy dental technician around 50 who grew up abroad. After working in the laboratory, the taciturn loner wanders around the poorer quarters of the Venezuelan capital, looking for young men. Armando pays them to accompany him to his apartment in the Candelaria district . There the men always have to undress half or completely and turn their backs on Armando while he masturbates at a reasonable distance.

When Armando learns of his father's return to Caracas, his orderly life is thrown out of balance. After an unspoken, traumatic childhood experience, he seeks revenge, while his sister, who apparently met the same fate, is in preparation for a child adoption and dreams of a normal family life. Armando then begins to secretly observe his father, who always shuttles back and forth between a guarded villa in the rich suburb and a modern office tower in the city center in an elegant suit.

One day in his search for young men, Armando takes the 17-year-old Elder home with him. The violent leader of a street gang insults him as a "fagot" the first time he meets him, knocks him out and robbed him. Nevertheless, Armando continues to seek proximity to Elder, who works in a car repair shop and still lives with his mother. Armando supports the young man financially and invites him to dinner. After Elder was beaten to hospital by his pregnant friend's brothers, Armando took him in and provided him with medical care.

Halfway recovered, taking advantage of Elder Armando's trust. He searches the apartment and breaks into Armando's safe to get money to buy a car. Elder is caught red-handed by Armando. Armando furiously wants to break off the relationship with the boy. When Elder scolds him again as a “fagot”, Armando voluntarily rams a knife into his thigh several times as a proof of manliness and challenges the shocked Elder to do the same. Elder escapes the apartment, but returns to Armando. He persuades him to go to a hospital together to have his wounds treated.

Elder falls in love with the always aloof Armando, to whom he gives his medallion as a token of his affection. He learns of Armando's disturbed relationship with his father, while Elder talks about the imprisoned father whom he originally passed off to Armando as "deceased." Armando grants Elder a request for his own car for 12,000  bolívar . He had assembled it by hand in the workshop.

When Elder Armando invites to a wedding and kisses him passionately in the men's room, he is violently rejected by the latter. Elders mother, who is also present at the celebrations, learns about her son's relationship with the “business partner” introduced to her. She then puts her son in front of the door in disgust. Elder is again accepted by Armando.

One day Elder Armando promises the murder of the hated father as the ultimate token of love. In fact, Elder returns with three empty cartridges and tells Armando that he killed his father and that no one watched him. They both spend the night together and have sex together for the first time. The next morning, Elder leaves to shop for breakfast at the bakery. When he leaves the shop, he is arrested by several police officers. Armando, who betrayed Elder, watches the street from a safe distance.

Awards

Lorenzo Vigas at the 2016 Miami Film Festival

Lorenzo Vigas was the first Latin American filmmaker to be awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival . The film also won the following festival prizes:

In August 2016, Caracas, a love of the Asociación Nacional de Autores Cinematográficos (ANAC), was chosen as an official Venezuelan nominee for an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film , but was not shortlisted.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Caracas, a love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Awards in the Internet Movie Database (accessed September 4, 2016).
  3. ↑ Mango, Agustin: Oscars: Venezuela Selects 'From Afar' for Foreign-Language Category at hollywoodreporter.com, August 11, 2016 (accessed September 5, 2016).
  4. ↑ 9 Foreign Language Films advance in Oscar Race at oscars.org, December 15, 2016 (accessed January 6, 2017).