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Powerful and erotic --Chicago Free Press
Graceful --LA TIMES
Watercolors is everything that Beautiful Thing should have been and everything that Brokeback Mountain was supposed to be --Chicgopride.com
Graceful --LA TIMES
Watercolors is everything that Beautiful Thing should have been and everything that Brokeback Mountain was supposed to be --Chicgopride.com
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Tender, romantic and utterly engrossing, Watercolors charts the life-changing gay love affair between two young students. Upon arriving at his debut exhibition in New York, promising artist Danny is immediately transported back to a summer of years gone by where he met Carter, a strikingly handsome swimmer. An initial attraction soon develops into an intense and passionate affair between the contrasting students- and Carter ultimately becomes the inspiration for much of Dannys highly charged erotic work. But their relationship, and even Carters very existence, is at risk as he battles an abusive father, endemic homophobia and drug abuse. At turns beautifully understated and powerfully moving, award-winning Watercolors offers a timeless love story which proves impossible to resist.
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Troubled loves,
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This review is from: Watercolors [DVD] (DVD)
"Love is short... and forgetting is so long." This apt quote opens WATERCOLORS, as we meet Danny, an artist holding his first exhibition. His boyfriend is frustrated with Danny's level of distraction: it is the event Danny has worked so hard for, so why does he seem so far away? The bulk of the film answers this question, consisting of a flashback to Danny's senior year of high school. Back then, success is an impossible dream, and instead Danny is the stereotypical 'sensitive' outsider - strong at school-work and art, bullied for being a 'fag'. Enter Carter: Danny's (apparent) polar opposite. Carter is an athlete, a swimmer, and a trouble-maker; seemingly all-physicality versus Danny's intellectuality. When Carter's father leaves town one weekend, Carter is deposited at Danny's house. The inevitable tension arises between the two young males. Carter flirts outrageously with the shy, inexperienced, Danny; although his intentions are ambiguous. When the weekend closes, the two seem to have bonded, but Carter insists that they cannot be seen together at school. Their respective 'houses' demand that they keep apart (the overwrought Romeo & Juliet back-story is palpable). Danny has tumbled head-over-heals in love... but is Carter merely toying with him? Writer/Director David Oliveras has done a most admirable job with his début feature-length film. What is obviously a well-worn theme is given a freshness that keeps the viewer engaged. He clearly demanded a great deal from his relatively inexperienced lead actors, and while some of the dialogue occasionally struggles for authenticity, the leads fare well in producing the delicately sensual eroticism and poignancy of a first love that will impact Danny (and his future relationships) for years to come. WATERCOLORS is an unexpectedly-satisfying retrospective of the tenderness and pain of our first madly-passionate encounter; that unparalleled love which still continues to haunt us years later. If this thought is something that resonates, the film will certainly reach out to you. Recommended.
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Watercolors DVD,
This review is from: Watercolors [DVD] (DVD)
I watched the film is segments from YouTube and just had to buy the DVD and get the book. The film is well written I think, took me a while to work out that the story is recount of the writers younger days. I liked it. I hope you do too
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Watercolors,
This review is from: Watercolors [DVD] (DVD)
I loved to see this film. It is a story that takes you on a trip a travel where two persons meet that are quite different but they find eachother and they love. I liked the retroperspective in the film that helps to move on. Really good film.
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