2019 ‘Un rubio’ Directed by Marco Berger
Gabriel rents a room in Juan’s House. They work together in a Woodwork place. Gabriel is a very quiet guy and has a little daughter. Juan is a party boy who has a lots of girls around. Inadvertently the sexual tension starts to grow between them. It opens a new hidden forbidden world they have to deal with.
The Blond One, Le Colocataire, Der Blonde, O Loiro, A szöszi, Блондин, Le colocataire, 金发男子, 大叔熾愛, 블론드 원
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Mardi Gras Film Festival 2019
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What a beautifully simple movie this was. I don’t really know how to describe it. It’s sensitive. It’s erotic. It’s nothing particularly new or revolutionary but it’s just done so elegantly.
I enjoyed it. The quiet stillness, backdrops and sporadic dialogue made it feel so raw and realistic. Both actors did an amazing job of portraying who their characters were and their circumstances. I have been both at one stage or another, so I really connected with this movie.
Marco Berger presents what is a common scenario in his filmography in this love story that arises between two co-workers of a wood workshop. Gabriel, the blonde to whom the title of the film alludes, reserved and secretive, has just moved to Juan's apartment. Among them there is an undeniable attraction, they exchange accidental caresses and glances that yearn for the body of the other creating an atmosphere of charged sexual tension.
This time, however, there is a significant change as the repressed desire finally come to fruition and the passion is consummated. In Un Rubio the Argentinean filmmaker ventures to explore what happens after his protagonists have surrendered and that irrepressible desire has been fulfilled. Thus, through a relationship…
Just another slow burn queer romance that hits you right in the feels. That ending with the daughter... so pure.
The blonde one is a good man–he is smart, he is kind, he is important. Fuck the brunette one!
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Gaston Re is terrific. I was having trouble understanding at first his character's seeming lack of personality. But it's also what happens when you don't grow up accepted and encouraged to be you. You can repress yourself to the point of not being there. But then he stares. Those stares that are screams, all of it wanting to come out.
The sheer amount of sexual tension in this film was torturous, the slow scenes of touching and looking and hinting, absolutely torturous in the best possible way. The whole time I’m just like “DO IT!! DO IT!! DO IT!!” hahaha. The kissing was so hot.
In all seriousness though this was a great film. I thought the lead actors were fantastic and had the most amazing chemistry, Gaston Re especially was the standout, he has such a gentleness about him, so quiet and sensitive and lovely. It reminded me very much of End Of The Century, overtly sexual but also full of thoughtfulness and depth. I enjoyed it a lot and would watch it again, exceeded my already high expectations. So many little nuanced scenes that meant so much, a small touch, a glance, it means a lot.
Tension has become a trademark in Marco Berger’s work. You’re aware going into one of his films that the will-they won’t-they suspense will drive the narrative. The spaces in his films brim with silence, allowing the restless expressions in his characters’ faces do the talking. The point is not to make it seem like words are irrelevant—on the contrary, it is when his characters come clean that you realize the power of just talking. It is fitting then that The Blonde One, Berger’s latest film, was conceived with a mute lead in mind. While at the end they were forced to scratch that idea, Gabriel, the titular blonde (Taekwondo’s Gaston Re), clings to quietness throughout the story, even being referred…
Marco Berger is the one who best addresses the gay issue. He evolves and matures through his works. The king of sensual tension delves deeper into relationships, internalized homophobia, and other transversal themes with a vast charge of truth. Delicacy and depth achieve dialogue even when words are not pronounced.
Movies that face homosexuality usually refer to a type of cinema that does not have much to do with the reality of the third genre. They usually travel through the vortices, where the roles of their protagonists approach heterosexual behavior or undertake extreme, crazy, and superficial characters, who have little to do with the environment around us.
The Blonde One is a mature film, where Berger provides with looks and…
