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Last Match (The)

Country: Spain | Cuba, Language: Spanish, 94 mins

Gay | Drama | 2012

Original Title

La Partida

Director: Antonio Hens
Writer: Abel Gonzalez Melo; Antonio Hens
Producer: Julio Gutierrez; Antonio Hens

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It's not easy being gay in Cuba...it's even more difficult when you are a poverty-stricken husband, father and a gay-4-pay-in-denial rent boy with a gambling problem...meet Reinier.

And meet Yosvani, broodingly beautiful...with his heart on his sleeve.

The shifting sands of the used, the abused...the exploited...it's a game of survival...you do what you can to get by...morality, loyalty are mere disposable commodities for the poor, luxuries for the wealthy.

It's not easy being gay in Cuba...and, it can't be easy to make a film about being gay. For that alone, Antonio Hens has to be congratulated.

He, also, has to be applauded...because, he has made a very fine film indeed...with some startling performances - Milton Garcia especially...tragic, beautiful, heartfelt.

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The(ir) Blurb...

Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field at their neighbourhood in Havana. Although obsessed with moneymaking to hold up his baby, teen wife and wife's granma, gambler Reinier always fails in getting the stoke of luck he looks for. At the same time he cannot help being infatuated by Yosvani. Handsome Yosvani will give up his wealthy -and elder- girlfriend whom he hooked to pay him a lavish life in the big city, and the works he makes for her father, a loan thug, so much in love he is with Reinier. But the boys would fight hard to keep this love in the reckless Havana streets.