Don't Tell Anyone

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Summary: Perú à la française or say cheese
Review: This is a stunning film from Perú about being different in a stifling, conservative society where appearances are everything and honesty is not an option. Caught between an overbearing, racist father (racial tolerance still has a long ways to go in these parts) and an obviously repressed, pious mother, a well to do young man must come to grips with his real self encountering hypocrisy both in the straight and gay world. Unfolding with a gift for storytelling and a dash of wit, this film is a candidate as permanent fixture in the gay or human rights wing of any dvd collection. The transfer is tack-sharp and the colors vivid; the sound is excellent. Some might quibble that such a hadsome, personable and bilingual young man might connect with the gay community in South Beach, where he goes to live for a spell, managing to get work at a men's clothing boutique, or disco, or whatever, instead of being reduced to walking dogs for rich folks and hustling on the side, but then the filmmaker would have had to scuttle his deliciously sardonic (and sad) final wedding shot that ends the film. Don't hesitate, get this one!

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Summary: Drugs everywhere
Review: Why is it movies about homosexuality always involve a large amount of drugs? I liked the way this movie started out with him young and living at home. But as soon as he goes off to college it goes downhill from there. He turns into a drug addicted drunk who will lead a girl on into thinking he will marry her and then dump her as soon as he thinks he has a boyfriend. And then he ruins the life of his lover by telling his fiancee that they have been sleeping together. In the end he gets back together with his girlfriend. It looks like they're going to get married soon. But then his lover comes back and it looks like he's ready to dump the girl for a second time. The guy is a jerk.