Synopsis
A writer dying of AIDS searches for a cure and human interaction in the hospitals and sex clubs of Buenos Aires.
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Cast
- Juan MinujínPablo Pérez
- Mimí ArdúTía
- Carlos EchevarríaNicolás
- Javier van de CouterMartín
- Osmar NúñezBáez
- Ricardo MerkinPadre
- Carlos PortaluppiEditor
- Bárbara LombardoJulia
- Ricardo MorielloJuan
- Daniel CargiemanHombre Casado
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
An Argentine writer dying of AIDS searches for a medical cure and some human warmth in the hospitals and S&M clubs of Buenos Aires in dignified, thoughtful drama A Year Without Love. - 70
Village Voice
Anahí Berneri's promising feature debut (based on Pablo Pérez's autobiographical novel) is at once unsentimental and sympathetic; she evinces rare insight into a gay man's life and sexuality without cringing, passing judgment, or wallowing in pity. - 70
L.A. Weekly
First-time director Anahí Berneri, who wrote this involving, if slow-moving, film with Pablo Pérez (based on Pérez’s own diaries), doesn't shy away from the whippings, rope work and carefully calibrated humiliation that make up a good night of dungeon play. Yet A Year Without Love isn't a sex movie (so don’t expect one), but a studied examination of how one man folds jarring events into the everyday fabric of his life. - 70
Los Angeles Times
A Year Without Love is only Berneri's third feature yet is an elegant, economical work. - 60
Empire
Abrasive but affecting. - 50
New York Post
The unusually explicit dungeon scenes with Pablo, a leather daddy and a fellow slave may whip a rather specialized audience into a frenzy. But for others, A Year Without Love will be a less pleasurably painful experience. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a weighty and visually interesting movie that unfortunately doesn't have a strong message beyond its overwhelming bleakness.
