Review of ANHELL69: A passionate praise for the renegade queer of Colombia | Cinema

TThe best type of Gothic is Latin Gothic. That is clear throughout this documentary lament for the Colombian city of Medellín, for which the director Theo Montoya narrates his elegy from a coffin. Fortunately, he is still alive, unlike eight of the renegades LGBTQ+ of Doomy appearance who talk about their lives in camera here, having suicacited or died of drug overdose since he filmed. It is implicit that they are victims for the indicator of a kind of environmental sociocultural violence that is a hangover of the days of the poster.

Partially built with hearing interviews with actors candidates, ANHELL69 is the remnant of the unfinished film of Montoya, of which we see extracts: it takes place in a dystopian Medellina in which the preponderance of the dead and the lack of space in the cemetery has led to the ghosts of the red eyes walking through the streets. These income also enjoy horny connections with living humans, an outbreak of “spectrophy” that authorities take energetic measures. It is a fun metaphor and the camp for something in sight: the disdain and harassment that the city LGBTQ+ of the city is submitted daily. First of this band is that Montoya, 21, has chosen for the main role: Camilo with the eyes of a deer, whose soft nihilism attracts it.

Colding his abandoned film, sincere ideas of his queer comrades, the enthusiastic sequences of Gothic Rave, the images of protest and the urban landscapes of Medellín of galactic appearance, Montoya hopes that this is equivalent to a “cinema of unbelievers” (inspired by the neo -Red Colombian Victor Gaviria, who comes here as a driver of taxi drivers). But its ambitions go even further: it aspires to do a job that is really transgressive, crossing the limits as fluid as its spectrophylic squad breaks gender lines.

ANHELL69 blur the divisions of reality and fiction in a quite effectively, but it is debatable how feasible Montoya is in the construction of an alternative future. Many of the jaw hopes expressed here are tactically banal: “I want to be the Hollywood bitch!” Declare a Juerguista. The traumatic hems after these nights as impassively as the surrounding mountains; It is surprising how many speak, in the absence of a viable future, about simply existing at the present time. The new horizons can be elusive, but Montoya strives hard in this fantasy and passionate piece of film protest to create a rape so that his tribe sees one.

ANHELL69 is in real history as of September 5.