La huella de unos labios

The latest film from Julian Hernandez shows a world as it was before a plague afflicted it and then life under an extreme lockdown. Hugo Catalán as Roman, a gay B movie actor, crosses paths with Aldo played by Mauricio Rico, a first nations recent arrival in the capital.

We see their promiscuous lives before lockdown and then the claustrophobic existence they lead during confinement. Both men are bored and frustrated but Aldo finds he's earning more online than he did at the grocer's shop he was working at before the plague.

The director shows the two men's lives as they might have been were it not for the restrictions that take place in their imaginations via their online meetings.

The shocking ending shows just how profound their long-distance relationship has become with a last look at what could have been.

Definitely worth an hour and twenty minutes of anyone's time.