Pablo is a young poet in Buenos Aires infected with the HIV virus. It is 1996 and a lot of the new drugs to treat the disease were not easily available to anyone yet. He had returned home after living three years in Paris. Pablo shares the apartment with an aunt who appears to be mentally challenged, spending hours on the phone.
We follow Pablo as he goes through the city, usually late at night. Being a loner, Pablo shows no self esteem. He prefers to have anonymous sex at movie houses catering to people like him. He also tries placing ads for encounters with others of his own inclination, specifying he is carrying the HIV virus. In those dark places it never occurs to him to inform the people he meets, something that is wrong and irresponsible on his part.
One day Pablo discovers the thrill of the S&M scene. He is taken by a friend to meet a man who introduces him to that world of leather and pain. Pablo, who is reluctant at first, discovers a natural attitude to engage in that scene that not only humiliates the weaker participant, but gives him a false enjoyment to fill his loneliness.
Directed by Anahi Berneri whose other two efforts, "Encarnacion" and "Por tu culpa" we had seen, this is a film that depicts that sordid world where sex is viewed in a different way. Pablo realizes he is going to die from the cruel disease that afflicts him. He sees no hope in getting a cure so he only does what satisfies him. Based on a short story by the real Pablo Perez, who adapted it for the screen with Ms. Berneri and Susana Silvestre. The film was shot in dark, and grainy tones by Lucio Bonelli with incidental music composed by Martin Bauer and Leo Garcia. One of the producers of this film is Daniel Burman.
Juan Minujin plays Pablo with a cool sense of what his character is going through. Others in minor roles include Omar Nunez, Javier Van DeCouter, Mimi Ardu and Ricardo Merkin.
We follow Pablo as he goes through the city, usually late at night. Being a loner, Pablo shows no self esteem. He prefers to have anonymous sex at movie houses catering to people like him. He also tries placing ads for encounters with others of his own inclination, specifying he is carrying the HIV virus. In those dark places it never occurs to him to inform the people he meets, something that is wrong and irresponsible on his part.
One day Pablo discovers the thrill of the S&M scene. He is taken by a friend to meet a man who introduces him to that world of leather and pain. Pablo, who is reluctant at first, discovers a natural attitude to engage in that scene that not only humiliates the weaker participant, but gives him a false enjoyment to fill his loneliness.
Directed by Anahi Berneri whose other two efforts, "Encarnacion" and "Por tu culpa" we had seen, this is a film that depicts that sordid world where sex is viewed in a different way. Pablo realizes he is going to die from the cruel disease that afflicts him. He sees no hope in getting a cure so he only does what satisfies him. Based on a short story by the real Pablo Perez, who adapted it for the screen with Ms. Berneri and Susana Silvestre. The film was shot in dark, and grainy tones by Lucio Bonelli with incidental music composed by Martin Bauer and Leo Garcia. One of the producers of this film is Daniel Burman.
Juan Minujin plays Pablo with a cool sense of what his character is going through. Others in minor roles include Omar Nunez, Javier Van DeCouter, Mimi Ardu and Ricardo Merkin.