4 Moons

By: Amos Lassen

"Cuatro Lunas" has brings together four gay-themed stories that run from the first discovery of adolescent same-sex feeling through to desire as one gets older. These are four stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to the fact that one is afraid of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.

Sergio Tovar Velarde wrote and directed the films. He has recruited quite a cast-Antonio Velázquez, Alejandro de la Madrid, César Ramos, Gustavo Egelhaaf, Echánove Alonso, Alejandro Belmonte, Karina Gidi, Gabriel Santoyo, Sebastian Rivera and Juan Manuel Bernal. The films taken together send out a message of love, acceptance and freedom. The genius here is that we see these four different stages of life and the thin line between love and hate. We see all of the details of each film as we see love and recognition come into play. We also see that love is the same emotion regardless of the ages or gender of those involved. The stereotype does not exist here but there is a credible look at the way we live.