I really appreciated this thoughtful, moving drama about a gay couple wrestling with the state of their diminishing relationship while also wrestling with their own convictions and prejudices. The characters felt genuine and sincere, and the story of their lives was compelling.
The wonderful "El Destello de la Luna" is a beautifully layered relationship drama exploring the fraught machinations of a gay couple from different generations, and at a critical crossroads in their romantic partnership. Director Gustavo Letelier has brought to the screen a deeply revealing melodrama, tinged with all the real-world nuances of decaying love and its reflective impacts on the human condition.
The opening sequence of this film immediately arrested my attention with powerful parallels between youth & old age, between a man and his own reflection, between who one IS and who one THINKS one is. The cinematography and acting is superb and the pacing of the film presents much like a theatrical play with a poetic heartbeat that is hypnotizing throughout.
I was hypnotized - still am - by this very sensitive piece of work. There is a true poetry to it and a superb cinematography.
