Fin de siglo (original title)
18 | 1h 24min | Drama | Argentina (Spanish)
Director: Lucio Castro
Writer: Lucio Castro
Stars: Juan Barberini, Ramon Pujol, Mía Maestro
Two men meet in Barcelona and after spending a day together
they realize that they have already met twenty years ago.
End of the Century is an Argentine romantic drama
film, directed by Lucio Castro. The film stars Juan Barberini as Ocho, a man
from Argentina on vacation in Barcelona, who hooks up for a casual sexual
encounter with Javi, played by Ramon Pujol. The men soon realize that they have
met before, 20 years earlier in 1999, when they were both in the closet about
their sexuality and too afraid to pursue a relationship with each other. The
film also stars Mía Maestro as Sonia, Javi's girlfriend at the time of the
original meeting.
The film had its theatrical premiere at the New Directors/New
Films Festival on March 30, 2019. It subsequently had its Argentine premiere on
April 8 at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, where
it won the award for Best Argentine Film. It subsequently screened at other
LGBT and general interest film festivals, and won the award for Best First
Feature at the Frameline Film Festival.
