Li Cheng’s passionate romance, set in Guatemala City, explores the relationship between 19-year-old café waiter José and construction worker Luis.
Offering a rare representation of gay life in Guatemala, sexually promiscuous José seeks a deeper connection in this moving gay romance, the winner the Queer Lion at the Venice Film Festival, set in its capital.
Despite poverty and societal homophobia, defiant José is determined to find love, and when he meets Luis, he may have found ‘the one’.
Barbican Cinema Tue 21 Jan 2020, 18:30
