Walt está locamente enamorado de un joven inmigrante ilegal, Johnny, que no habla inglés y lo encuentra raro y desagradable.Walt está locamente enamorado de un joven inmigrante ilegal, Johnny, que no habla inglés y lo encuentra raro y desagradable.Walt está locamente enamorado de un joven inmigrante ilegal, Johnny, que no habla inglés y lo encuentra raro y desagradable.
- Premios
- 2 premios en total
- Drunk Man
- (as Bob Pitchlynn)
- Featured Wino
- (as Bad George Connor)
Argumento
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- CuriosidadesGus Van Sant's intimate black and white tale of l'amour fou has been hailed as a precursor to the American wave of queer cinema that started to swell in the late eighties. Its credentials are established in the opening lines as Walt (Tim Streeter), a counter jockey at a hole-in-the-wall liquor store, gazes upon Johnny (Doug Cooeyate), an illegal Mexican immigrant with fleshy lips, a wide, youthful grin, and a streak of juvenile machismo. "I want to drink this Mexican boy, Johnny Alonzo," he rhapsodizes in voice-over, and he spends the rest of the movie doing all he can to get next to this beautiful boy ("He says he's 18, but he's probably 16," Walt confesses). Johnny is full of attitude and sass and contempt for his gay admirer, but not too proud to take advantage of Walt's desire for his company to score a handout at the store or a turn behind the wheel of Walt's car (which he pilots with the reckless mania of a teenager on a video game).
The film was shot for $25,000 on 16mm black-and-white film and captures the physical and social atmosphere of Portland's run down Northwest area, of transient motels and liquor in corner stores and a homeless population loitering in the streets, with such vivid detail that you can recognize the authenticity without ever having set foot in the real life location.
- Citas
Walt Curtis: [voice-over narration] Maybe when they're making love they can think about Roberto having fucked me. Roberto's cock fucks Johnny, fucked me. That's about as close to Johnny as I'll ever get, unless I had the money. Poor boys never win. Who fucks whom. Mala noche. Every street Mexican on sixth will think he can stick it in me, well they're wrong. But they never were too smart to begin with or they wouldn't be here.
- ConexionesFeatured in Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)
- ksf-2
- 21 ene 2008
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Detalles
Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- 25.000 US$ (estimación)
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 25.386 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 3833 US$
- 3 jun 2007
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 62.743 US$
- Duración1 hora 18 minutos
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.33 : 1