{"id":5632,"date":"2018-08-13T23:18:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T21:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/?p=5632"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:40:07","slug":"jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/en\/jose\/","title":{"rendered":"#QL12: Jos\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jos\u00e9<\/strong>
\nby Li Cheng
\nwith Enrique Salanic (Jos\u00e9), Manolo Herrera (Luis), Ana Cecilia Mota (Mom)
\n(Guatemala, 85\u2019)<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 (19 years old) lives with his Mother (50s) in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world\u2019s most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. Jos\u00e9 is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is church and selling sandwiches. Jos\u00e9 spends his days on crowded buses and in the streets delivering food. Resigned and aloof, in free moments he plays with his phone and looks for random sex. When he meets Luis, Jos\u00e9 is thrust into passion and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable.<\/p>\n

Director\u2019s statement
\n\u201cClose relationships between mother and son, is a key feature of Latino culture \u2013 a traditional morality co-existing with extreme machismo, violence, and religiosity. Extensive interviews in 12 Latin American countries led us to Guatemala. Jos\u00e9 re-thinks popular images of Latin American that often feature idyllic places and white faces but where most people are urbanized, poor and dark-skinned. It\u2019s a deeply troubled place, and the film elucidates what young people told us \u2013 finding a relation here is an \u2018impossible dream’\u201d.<\/p>\n

Presented in 15. Giornate degli Autori<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jos\u00e9 by Li Cheng with Enrique Salanic (Jos\u00e9), Manolo Herrera (Luis), Ana Cecilia Mota (Mom) (Guatemala, 85\u2019) Jos\u00e9 (19 years old) lives with his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,661],"tags":[754,79,1352,1013,1014,1015,753,1006,1016],"class_list":["post-5632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films-in-competition","category-ql2018-en","tag-ana-cecilia-mota","tag-competition","tag-enrique-salanic-en","tag-guatemala-en","tag-jose-en","tag-li-cheng-en","tag-manolo-herrera","tag-queer-lion-2018-en","tag-venezia-75-en","post-item","post-even"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t