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Holiday

Country: Ecuador, Language: Spanish, 82 mins

Original Title

Feriado
  • Director: Diego Araujo
  • Writer: Diego Araujo
  • Producer: Irina Caballero; Juan Sebastian Jacome

CGiii Comment

A low-key, deadpan affair...a moody, expressionless teen - with annoying hair - writes poetry about the darkness and his loneliness!!!

Yes, this is laugh-a-minute stuff!

Unrequited gay love is never a joyful walk in the park...for one, it's one-sided...and, two, when that gay love is declared unrequited, the film is over. There is no will he, won't he...here, it is fairly obvious - from the beginning - that he won't...and, the spontaneous kiss...who actually does that?!?

It's not terrible, it's just too long...cluttered with useless sub-plots...it would have made a far better short.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A drama set in turbulent, turn-of-the-millennium Ecuador and centered on a young man who begins to develop complicated feelings for Juano after he saves him from a beating.

Cast & Characters

Juan Arregui as Juan Pablo;
Diego Andres Paredes as Juano;
Manuela Merchan as La Flaca;
Canela Samaniego as Maribel;
Irwin Ortiz as Jorgito;
Francis Perez Uscococivh as Michel;
Pepe Alvear as El Pichi;
Peki Andino as Uncle Jorge;
Elena Vargas as Anna;
Juan Manuel Arregui