A Year Without Love
| A Year Without Love | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Anahi Berneri |
| Produced by |
Executive Producer: Sebastián Ponce Producers: Daniel Burman Diego Dubcovsky |
| Written by |
Anahi Berneri Pablo Pérez |
| Starring |
Juan Minujín Mimí Ardú |
| Music by | Martín Bauer, Leo García |
| Cinematography | Lucio Bonelli |
| Edited by | Alex Zito |
| Distributed by |
Distribution Company BD Cine |
Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
A Year Without Love (Spanish: Un año sin amor) is a 2005 Argentine drama film directed by Anahi Berneri, and written by Berneri and Pablo Pérez, adapting Pérez's autobiographical novel of the same title.
The plot follows Pablo, a writer dealing with loneliness and AIDS. Yearning for love, he places adds in a gay magazine and finds himself involved in the secretive world of Buenos Aires gay leather scene.
A Year Without Love played the international and gay and lesbian film festival circuits, garnering a number of awards including the Teddy Bear prize for the Best Gay Film at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival.
Plot
Pablo is a struggling poet who is living with HIV in Buenos Aires.
Over the course of a year he deals with issues relating to his health, his family, his search for love and his developing involvement with leather fetishism.
The year culminates with the publication of his diary in the form of a novel, Un Año sin amor.
Cast
- Juan Minujín as Pablo Pérez
- Mimí Ardu as Pablo's aunt
- Carlos Echevarría as Nicolás
- Bárbara Lombardoas Julia
- Javier Van de Couteras Martín
- Osmar Núñez as Commissar Báez
- Ricardo Merkin as Pablo's father
- Carlos Portaluppi as the book editor
- Mónica Cabrera as social worker
- Ricardo Moriello as Juan
- Juan Carlos Ricci as Dr. Rizzo
Awards
Wins
- Berlin International Film Festival: Teddy Award, Best Feature Film; 2005.
- Outfest: Grand Jury Award, Outstanding International Narrative Feature; 2005.
- New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: Best Foreign Narrative Feature; 2005.
Nominations
- Mar del Plata Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize, Anahi Berneri; Best film; 2005.
- Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor Award; Best Adapted Screenplay; Best New Actor, Juan Minujín; Best Costume Design, Roberta Pesci; 2006.
External links
- A Year Without Love at cinenacional.com (Spanish).
- A Year Without Love at the Internet Movie Database
- A Year Without Love at AllMovie