![]() ![]() The love scene and the film seemed to honor the attractions and emotions shared between men and women of the same sex feelings so often not acted on because of societal hang-ups and prejudices. What exactly happens next is anyone's guess, as Tenoch and Julio wake up naked and, soon after, awkwardly head home. Cuaron films it beautifully, as the young men - being pleasured by Verdu's character, Luisa - slowly but suredly make their way to each other and share a passionate kiss. Tenoch and Julio are ostensibly straight friends, but have a flirtation finally consummated in the fateful scene where the three make love. but what was gay about this movie? I rented the film from Blockbuster (it was 2002!) and its version edited out the movie's "climax" - a three-way love scene between the film's two young protagonists, Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael Garcia Bernal), and a dying woman they met during a cross-country road trip (played by Maribel Verdu). So I rented Alfonso Cuaron's masterwork and thoroughly enjoyed it. ![]() It was wonderful, he claimed, and hot hot in a gay sense. A good friend - no longer with us - recommended this Mexican film to me when it first came out.
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