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In my humble discernment, the key to making sense of this movie and of its many twists and turns of time and the many ambiguities of the story lines, is that much of the story happens in Ocho's imagination.. If we assume the long, plodding initial scenes depicting Ocho's arrival in Barcelona are real, of his reacting to solitude and loneliness by listlessly wandering the streets, staring vacantly at nothing in particular, until he notices Javi in the plaza below and then later at the beach. At that point the story picks up and grows increasingly intricate and complicated. The ambiguity of the story, however, questions how much of the story actually happened and how much is just Ocho's imagination, just a continuation of his introspective mind through the preceding opening scenes up to that point. How much of the story is actual history and how much is fantasy? It's no surprise that Ocho's and Javi's appearance didn't change during 20 years, if in fact 20 years never went by except in Ocho's mind. Whether the details of the story are real or fantasized, this film tells a true story of the odyssey of a heart as a lonely hunter in quest of a loving human connection. A beautiful film.

How would your life be different if you took a different relationship path? That's what gets explored in this poignant film.

The director and cinematographer use long, beautiful (and mostly silent) visual narratives to create a sense of isolation for the main character who has recently ended a 20 year relationship.

Using flashback/flashforward scenes, the film explores what happens when two men meet again after a hook up that took place 20 years prior.

It would be easy to criticize this first full-feature directorial effort. Not everything in this movie succeeds by a long-shot. The criticism that it's too slow and boring certainly applies to the first 15-20 minutes. It's rare when an 84-minute film should be cut by at least 5-7.

But the criticism that this is a "gay movie" is TOTALLY off-base. What makes this film worth watching is the enigmatic, non-linear story about love, partnership, loneliness, and the passage of time. The fact that the two principals are gay is actually irrelevant to who they are as people, and what "Ocho," the main character, is looking for.

Whether you leave the theater thinking wondering what is the true story (I must say no more), or thinking that it's all just a metaphor, the film is ultimately thought-provoking. After seeing a preview, my wife and I discussed it all through lunch and well beyond.

While the film never quite reaches the emotional peaks that its romance subgenre may imply, Lucio Castro's 'End of the Century' is a sexy, beautiful, and contemplative tale of a love affair that lingers in the mind.

Do you think a one-night stand can become the kind of true love we all need to build a life together, even start your own family? That is what "End of The Century" (probably) is about. We are here faced with a bizzarre, interesting and brave narrative choice - the film maker introduces us to the two main characters by some sort of imbalance between past, present and future. The challenge is certainly bold, the viewer has to keep up with the continuous timeline change, but this is what makes the movie intriguing and appreciable. The idea is to turn the emerging love story of these two guys into a whole path of life, made with fading memories of what it was, uncertainties of what it will be, and a brisk concreteness of contemporary living. The two characters are well-defined, their lives converge and diverge during these different story arcs, and the whole plot can be considered cute, simple but wacky. Notwithstanding the appearance and facial features of the two guys seem not so suffer from the flowing of time (at all), we find an average result in our hands - a movie that is nice, unpretentious, genuine and quite pleasant to watch.

My husband and I just saw this film. It's over-shadowed by exceedingly long clips of walking in the street, scenery, skies, trees, ocean - overall lots of footage of no action and no dialogue. Why a film maker would waste valuable film time on nothing is at best self-indulgent. I got the feeling the filmmaker, given the absence of a viable plot, used video of nothing to make the film longer. I did get the impression the lead was coming to terms with his lost youth, but I don't want to conjure up a plot that doesn't really exist. At best, it appears this is a film about two handsome guys whose hookup turned into a long-term relationship. If that's the case, the story could have been told much better.

As I started to watch, I rapidly got bored with the street scenes but stuck with the film and came to realise that these were integral to the structure and direction of the screenplay. I then became apprehensive that this would turn into a Spanish-language version of the dreadful "Weekend" but let me say straightaway that this film is in a different and far better league than that farrago of pretension.

The dialogue was sharp, witty and captivating. The stories of the two guys were interesting and as the film moved unobtrusively into the past to tell their backstory things from the present day started to fall into place.

It was disconcerting at first that the same actors were playing their younger selves with no more than a change of clothing style, indeed grey hairs could be glimpsed sometimes in their beards as they talked together for the first time.

The story moved again to the future or the present day, but what present day? Had this all been an elaborate role play? Was everything in the imagination? Or was the final scene the true situation?

This is one of the few films I'll watch again in a few months time to see what else I can surmise about it. In the meantime, it has still got me thinking.

The movie seemed weak and confusing in many places. It bounced back and forth 20 years with no attempt to make the two leads look younger or different. The script was without anything that would grab a person.

Although the film is very well shot, elegant, sensual and featuring some interesting conversations and sweet moments, the characters at the center of it were not as well developed as the movie demanded and the whole premise was somewhat implausible in the first place.

A love story with a time shift twist - just confusing enough to make it interesting, intriguing and thought provoking. Updated version of "Sliding Doors" as it explores what could have been Warm and entertaining, well acted in a relaxed, believable way.

Lovely shots of Barcelona too.

This wonderful film unwinds backward and forward to tell about a relationship between two men and the people around them. Time twists and turns as what seemed real at the time fades from memory then re-emerges in present time. A little hard to write about. You have to see it to take it all in. I have seen it more than a few times and did not get tired of watching. The cast is wonderful and the chemisty between the men is right at ever turn. Hot or cool or in between. The photography is part of the cast and plays an important role. Barcelona. Gorgeous. OK. Go see it. Write your own review.

A great movie touching on the topic "What if?" which most of us can relate to. Felt that the characters had great chemistry and the story leaves you thinking. Very enjoyable to watch and good job by the director to tell an authentic and refreshing story.

You know when there are a boatload of awards it is going to be an artsy, boring mess. This is that. The dudes meet and make out and realize they met before. It tries to be smart, fails. I wouldn't suggest this to anyone who isn't related to the production. Great for sleep.

It is an outrage that two people of the same sex can get married and yet cannot buy this film. The UK censor has given it an 18 certificate. There is no criminality in this film, no drug abuse and simulated sex where no genitalia is visible. To me the simulation cannot be termed real sex and there is nothing in this film that would not pass for a 15 if it was aimed at a heterosexual audience. It is discrimination pure and simple. Now for the film. I watched it twice and the first time I found it tiresome. I was not keen on the actors who did not engage me, and I found that the beauty of the film visually got in the way of the characters. At that point I thought this is a 4 or 5 at most. The second time light dawned and I saw the subtle references to past, present and the tragedy of human alienation more clearly. The actors look ordinary, deliver the dialogue in an ordinary way and walk around a city ( Barcelona here ) in the way any of us would do. The fact that they look more or less the same despite 20 years difference was no problem. Even on a banal level some of us age slowly and do look more or less the same. The real revelation to me was how much this film resembles Antonioni's great film ' L'Eclisse '. Nearly 70 years ago this masterpiece with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti was the culmination of modernity and a shuffling off of the two world wars and the dread of another. Please viewers who know this film watch the ending and see the fire in a corner of the screen. Post Modern now we wait for another century and another 70 years of who knows what change and destruction. The two characters walk through memory and forgetting, just as Vitti and Delon did and as in ' L'Eclisse ' there is a wild dance in the middle which to me shows defiance as well as pleasure. Also watch out for the David Wojnarowicz book ' Close To The Knives ' ( Aids themed; defiantly so ) and the fears of one of the characters. No this is not a boring film, perhaps a little too fussily aesthetic for my taste, but a film that shows stages of History and our own history within it. The film cries out to be watched multiple times and if it has faults and most films have, then concentrate on the eternal situation of alienation and how we adjust to loss and renewal.

Nothing to save. Bad script and acting, meaningless scenery. It's perfect as an anti-ad to get less tourists in Barcelona.

One of my favourite films ever, set in one of my favourite cities. Intriguing and thought-provoking, I watched it a second time almost immediately, to see if I could pick up on any clues to help me understand the story line. (Another reviewer recommended counting the beer bottles, but I think he miscounted them!) The decision to portray the actors at the same age through different periods in time is obviously deliberate, and I think that ultimately this isn't meant to be a linear story, but more a study of how the past, present and future can co-exist within us. A drunken hook-up could change your life forever, or it could be so completely forgotten that years later you could meet the same person again and not even remember that you'd already met. This film is, I think, about the strangeness and poignancy of that reality.

I must be watching a different movie. Genuinely don't see why this has such a high rating (and 97% on RT?!)... Sure, the cinematography and acting is good but that doesn't mean the movie is good. The story is simple but also nonsensical (you expect me to believe that these two guys looked the exact same 20 years ago in these flashbacks? Pfft, please). I was honestly bored for a majority of the film. This film does nothing new for the genre; it honestly felt like they were trying to pull a "Weekend" but that was clearly unsuccessful.

I saw your eyes And you made me smile For a little while I was falling in love .... briliant and simple.... made me think, made me cry, made me smile....