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Amos Lassen wrote on 02/10/2011:

“BROKEN SKY”
An Ode to Young Love
Amos Lassen
“Broken Sky” (Strand Releasing) will melt the hardest of hearts. The viewer just sits back, relaxes and lets the film carry him away. It is an ode to young love and brings forth all of the excitement, the thrill, the confusion, the pain and the jealousy of the experience. There is little dialogue, almost no narrative but there are gorgeous photography and glorious music and while you may not understand every moment, it will grab your feelings and wrestle with them.
Dialog can be useless because once something has been said; it has indeed been said, What we see here is what happens between the lines and it is amazing how the moments of no speech say more than dialog could ever do.
“Broken Sky” is a work of art and director Julian Hernandez showed courage to take on a project with a story of love and desire between two gay teenagers.
Jonas (Miguel Angel Hoppe Canto) and Gerardo (Fernando Arroyo) are two school boys who are passionately and desperately in live. When they make love, you can feel the urgency and raw emotion that young couples have. They not only love and enjoy one another but they love and enjoy finding new ways to make show each other their love. Everything in their lives revolves around the moments when they are together.
But as strong as young love is, it fades with the passage of time and Jonas is the first of the two to feel a lack in their meetings and pushes Gerardo away and takes on a new lover—Sergio, a teen who has been following the two around school. When a stranger and Jonas meet on a dimly lit staircase, a ballet of passion begins. Sergio emits ecstasy and Jonas is a bit reserved, hoping to regain what he lost in Gerardo.
There were times that I felt I was spying on the art of lovemaking. When you see Jonas and Gerardo in their first coupling, you can feel the heat. As they love, their infatuation increases and then it begins to disintegrate as quickly as it blossomed. Hernandez captures beautifully a first romantic relationship—how it feels and how it locks out the world around it.
If there is a fault with the movie, it is that Hernandez gives us nondescript characters in an attempt to universalize the actions and this fails. Most of us have not had a love affair so deep and so full of passion at the tender young age of the onset of puberty. So like many first loves, the movie disappoints here.
Yet there are so many good points to the film, what difference does a little disappointment mean? It is an arty film and it is poetic. As it follows the rise and fall of young love, it grabs at us and we want to watch every nuance of the young lovers. It takes us t the highs and lows of love and it never loosens its grip. The dimly-lit cinematography, the beautiful camera angles, the fantastic musical score, and the heartache of the end of first love is all brought together in a marvel of a movie.
“Broken Sky” is about the human eye and its preoccupation with the gaze, adoration, jealousy, image obsession, memory and love. And this is done with few words. With a simple plot—two boys passionately in love, the lens of the camera seems to see into the soul of the youths. The looks, the stares, the long gazes say everything and words are unnecessary and unwanted. This is an intense film that deserves attention and as you watch you are treated to one of the most visually beautiful movies ever made. It is what you see that matters and the eye becomes the most sexual organ in the body. The film will arrest you visually and will slap you across the face as if to say, “Watch me”. It is a masterpiece of “eye” photography and gives us knowledge as to why we stare, why we yearn, why we desire and why we love.
Watching “Broken Sky” is akin to watching a carefully choreographed ballet or opera because of the lack of dialog and like in ballet and opera, the emphasis on physical presence does not always mean that emotion cannot be conveyed. The love-making we see in the film is not just a physical act but an emotional one as well. The outside world is lost during the film and although I doubt that the movie will have a large audience, I am sure that those that see it will be pleased that they did.

Geraardo M. wrote on 08/03/2010:

This film is about feeling,sensing and telling without words all had to be say.Its to remember how a touch or an expression can transmit what we want to say in the most precise way with no words.In my personal opinion shows the essence how the gay Latino man feels the first relationships in his youth,the desperation of One wanting being Two If you are not in the mood for tenderness,love,passion and to be transported to the wonderful world of the beginning of a new love,probably this movie is not for you.
This is a Mexican movie,made in Mexico City.Mexico is part of the North America not Central America,pls read the credits.

JANORM wrote on 07/17/2009:

This is a film about LOVE, TRUE LOVE, with all of its angst, emotional happiness and sadness, but most of all, its most enduring nature! LOVE, TRUE LOVE, can and will endure no matter the obstacles in its path, This is the story of just such a journey and which could only be told about two young men living in a Central American country, This one film that will become a classic and should be added to your collection. LOVE, TRUE LOVE, ENDURES FOREVER!!! NJMJr!

Green Giant wrote on 12/24/2008:

BROKEN SKY is certainly one of the most visually beautiful films on the subject of young gay men coming of age. Unfortunately it just about moves at a snail's pace. After all the medium is "motion
pictures" which implies there should be some motion in the picture.

charlypokemon wrote on 04/21/2007:

...the romance between Jonas and Gerardo is devastating!!. No dialogues whatsoever between them (could be considered from the Silent Movie Era, in fact!!), but the scenes of kisses, sex, the waiting the other one to appear can leave you breathless!!.