{"id":8052,"date":"2020-01-24T15:01:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T14:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/?p=8052"},"modified":"2020-01-28T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:10:00","slug":"usa-a-multiple-award-winning-drama-and-miami-film-festival-favorite-comes-to-mdcs-tower-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/en\/usa-a-multiple-award-winning-drama-and-miami-film-festival-favorite-comes-to-mdcs-tower-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Usa: A Multiple Award-Winning Drama and Miami Film Festival Favorite Comes to MDC\u2019s Tower Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Multiple Award-Winning Drama and Miami Film Festival Favorite Comes to MDC\u2019s Tower Theater
\n<\/em>JOSE<\/strong><\/p>\n

A film by:\u00a0\u00a0Li Cheng
\n<\/strong>Cast:\u00a0Enrique Salanic, Manolo Herrera, Ana Cecilia Mota<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guatemala \/ 2019 \/ 85 min \/ Drama \/ Not Rated
\nIn Spanish with English Subtitles<\/em><\/p>\n

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Winner, Queer Lion, Venice Film Festival<\/p>\n

Special sneak preview on Thursday, February 13th followed by an audience Q&A with the film\u2019s director Li Cheng.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winner of multiple awards, including the Queer Lion from the 75th Annual Venice Film Festival, Jos\u00e9 is a gripping, layered and beautifully honest story about one working-class young man\u2019s struggle to find himself. Made in the neorealist filmmaking tradition, the film is a nuanced and vivid look at being gay in Central America.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 lives with his mother in Guatemala City, where they survive on her selling sandwiches at bus stops and with him working at a local restaurant. It is a poor and sometimes dangerous country where living one\u2019s life as an openly gay man is hard for Jos\u00e9 to imagine. His mother has never had a husband, and as her youngest and favorite child, she is determined to hold on to him. When Jose meets attractive and gentle Luis (Manolo Herrera), a migrant from the rural Caribbean coast, they pursue an unexpected relationship with more emotion than Jos\u00e9 has ever felt. He is thrust into new passion and pain, and self-reflection, that push him to rethink his life even as he is reluctant to take a leap of faith.<\/p>\n

Produced by:\u00a0George F. Roberson, Li Cheng
\n<\/strong>Screenplay:\u00a0Li Cheng, George F. Roberson
\n<\/strong>Cinematography: Paolo Giron
\n<\/strong>Editing:\u00a0Lenz Claure
\n<\/strong>Music:\u00a0Yao Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCheng\u2019s sophomore feature unfolds in episodic fashion, allowing the filmmaker to focus on quotidian interactions between his protagonist and those he cares about.\u201d -Miami ArtZine \/\u00a0Full Review<\/a><\/p>\n

Confident visual sense\u2026a sensitive portrait [with a] depth of feeling.\u201d -The Hollywood Reporter \/\u00a0Full Review<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Venice Film Festival:<\/strong>\u00a0Winner, Queer Lion
\nMiami Film Festival:<\/strong>\u00a0Official Selection, 2019<\/p>\n

MDC’s Tower Theater Miami<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Multiple Award-Winning Drama and Miami Film Festival Favorite Comes to MDC\u2019s Tower Theater JOSE A film by:\u00a0\u00a0Li Cheng Cast:\u00a0Enrique Salanic, Manolo Herrera, Ana…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[1014,1381,907,1006,704],"class_list":["post-8052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-review","tag-jose-en","tag-mdcs-tower-theater-miami","tag-miami-film-festival","tag-queer-lion-2018-en","tag-usa","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