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From Afar
Directed by
Lorenzo Vigas
Not Rated
2016
1h 33m
Drama
,
Romance
6.6
79%
55%
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Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.
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Cast of From Afar
Alfredo Castro
Armando
Luis Silva
Elder
Jericó Montilla
Amelia
Catherina Cardozo
María
Marcos Moreno
Manuel
Jorge Luis Bosque
Fernando
Felipe Massiani
Javier Marcano
Auffer Camacho
Mermelada
Iván Peña
Yoni
Lorenzo Vigas
Director / Writer / Producer
Guillermo Arriaga
Writer / Producer
Rodolfo Cova
Producer
Michel Franco
Producer
From Afar Ratings & Reviews
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
[Pablo Larrain's] performance here further advances his standing as contemporary cinema's gray little nothing of an answer to the Everyman.
San Francisco Examiner
Anita Katz
This is small film that aims nobly and impresses.
SF Weekly
Sherilyn Connelly
What seems to be a fairly straightforward story of a hustler and closet case (cf. Boulevard) serves up some interesting twists.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
A tightly coiled, beautifully acted relationship study that occasionally swerves in the direction of a gangland thriller ...
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
Carefully composed, shot in the usual gray and mustard digital palette, the film deals in small slivers of information.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Almost aggressively unconvincing ...
NPR
Bob Mondello
A relationship drama with societal implications, Desde All (From Afar) hails from afar - specifically, from Venezuela - and marks a striking debut for first-time writer director Lorenzo Vigas.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Recommended only to the very patient, this study of a relationship between two highly disparate men feels slow and parched.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
"From Afar" suffers from the writer's way of using disjuncture and opacity to suggest meaning where, if you look closely enough, there really is none ...
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Less a fully realized and inhabited project than a set of symmetries snapping into place.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
"From Afar" never lets you relax and heave a sigh of relief in hopes that a happy ending may be in sight. Reality is too cruel for that.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Lorenzo Vigas' impressive debut charts an unlikely May-December romance with grace, subtlety and tension.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
This is an elliptical film that trusts its audience enough to peel away exposition and unnecessary dialogue, uncovering rich layers of ambiguity.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
Vigas' confidence in trusting his audience to form an emotional connection to the narrative without such signposting is admirable, but the film expects and needs your patience and close attention.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
A well conceived and executed character study that fares better than most similarly-themed efforts.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
It suggests that when straight men finally offer some kind of reciprocity to gay men, they lose their status as proper objects of desire.
Film Comment Magazine
Manuel Betancourt
Vigas never quite mobilizes the alienating distance evoked by the title to particularly illuminating ends; it all remains too remote, too removed, even when the characters and narrative reach a putatively surprising but sterile climax.
Chicago Reader
Marilyn Ferdinand
Silva, in his first role, doesn't quite reach his character's core, but his impulsiveness offers a fine counterbalance to Castro's caginess.
The Film Stage
Zhuo-Ning Su
From Afar delivers an incisive, poignant, surgically precise character study that deals a fatal blow in one crisp, clean stab.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
It's a fine representative of the current crop of formalist, stripped-down Latin American filmmaking ... Expect this slow-builder to have more of an impact post viewing.
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