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Synopsis

Set in 1982 Madrid, Colegas is a candid study of troubled teen friendships. Antonio and Jose, best friends for most of their eighteen years, have drifted into the jobless, idle lifestyle of the young-in-waiting. They hang around video arcades, getting high and hoping that something - anything - will change. When Antonio's sister discovers that she is pregnant by Jose, a chain of events is set into motion that will indelible change all three of their young lives. Directed and co-authored by Eloy de la Iglesia, Colegas is provocative, fast-paced entertainment with believable and sympathetic characters, exotic foreign locations and probing insight into Spain's "lost generation."

3 Reasons To buy this film

Eloy de la Iglesia is also the director behind Bulgarian Lovers, El Diputado, El Sacerdote, and Cannibal Man.

While not really gay-themed, this gritty drama does feature gay characters and some homoerotic tension between the two young male leads.

Eloy de la Iglesia was, during his time, one of Spain's most outspoken openly-gay filmmakers.

Review

Colegas, from openly-gay director Eloy de la Iglesia, revolves around two friends who resort to drug smuggling and prostitution in order to raise enough money to get an abortion of one of their girlfriends. (Spanish with English subtitles)

-- Raymond Murray

Keywords

Gay Male, Gay/Lesbian

Genres

International

Customer Reviews

brilliant, gritty, funny, and dark

yawnmower (yawnmower1@juno.com) wrote on 09/15/2003:

Maybe Iglesia's best film. Stars the extraordinarily beautiful Jose Luis Manzano as a young man with a best friend and a problem: he is in love with his buddy's sister and she is pregnant. The buddies think up all kinds of ways to raise the money for an abortion -- from prostitution to armed robbery. All a bust, and very funny in a dark way. But then the humor ends. Like Almodovar, Iglesia uses an ensemble of actors who appear in all his films, which are about real life and real emotions with all their complexity, and feature stunning young men upon whom to feast one's eyes all the while. The beautiful Manzano also stars in Navajeros.