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Director
Lucio Castro
Cast
Juan Barberini,
Ramon Pujol,
Mía Maestro,
Mariano López Seoane,
Helen Celia Castro-Wood
Genre
Drama,
Romance
An Argentinian man from New York and a Spanish man from Berlin hook up by chance while in Barcelona. What seems like a one-night encounter between two strangers becomes an epic, decades-spanning relationship depicted in nonlinear fashion with time and space refusing to play by the rules, turning a love story into a cosmic voyage with no clear beginning or end.
IndieWire by Jude Dry
Like a great poem, End of the Century gives voice to a seemingly indescribable feeling, one anyone who’s ever fallen in love will recognize from deep in their soul — as if bumping into an old friend you forgot how much you liked.
TheWrap by Carlos Aguilar
End of the Century is a sublimely haunting experience that will make you sigh in recognition of the what-ifs in your own life.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
It’s a stirring and delicately reflective piece of work.
The Film Stage by Jason Ooi
End of the Century is a love story drenched in a nostalgic magical realism that constantly shifts its own logic, as if recognizing the futility of containing its uncontainable romance.
Time Out by Hanna Flint
A beautifully crafted love story, End of the Century has two understated, thoughtful performances at its heart. It explores its existential themes – of the passing of time and of roads not taken – with delicacy and deftness. It’s a road worth travelling.
Time Out
A beautifully crafted love story, End of the Century has two understated, thoughtful performances at its heart. It explores its existential themes – of the passing of time and of roads not taken – with delicacy and deftness. It’s a road worth travelling.
The Hollywood Reporter by Keith Uhlich
End of the Century is at its best whenever Castro keeps things thematically and temperamentally woozy.
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
The measured ordinariness of its first section has been a sly setup for a poetic film that handles narrative as a kind of scarf dance.
San Francisco Chronicle by David Lewis
It’s a lovely film that’s poetic, erotic and bittersweet.
Slant Magazine by Ed Gonzalez
Castro’s feature-length directorial debut is a profound and casually artful expression of the lengths to which people go in order to not have to embody their desires.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
It balances what is with what might have been and what could still be, and, although the result is maybe a bit less substantial than Castro intended, there is a certain literary elegance in the way he sketches it out.
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