Everlasting Love (2015)
Company: TLA Releasing
Starring: Joan Bentalle, Aimer Vega, Hugo ALejo, Adrian de
Alfonso, Joana Mallol, Miguel Rojas, Sonny Smith, Oriol Vilalta
My Review and Thoughts:
Your main character is named Carlos. Carlos is a school
teacher who teaches language. Carlos has an appetite for sex, or at least
watching others have sex. After work he adventures into a local spot in the
woods near Barcelona. His lust and desire is calmed night after night by
watching random moments of sexual pleasure. One night he meets one of his
students there, named Toni. They explore each other, and so begins the student,
teacher relationship, or lack of. There is a mystery surrounding the teenage
boy. This mystery also involves his group of friends.
Directed and co-written by Marcal Fores. Fores has a very
unique idea of imagery by displaying a story through a darkened reality of
choices, conscience and evil. This is a very sexually graphic film. A touchy
film that explores some twisted realities.
This film is a very different film. It has parts erotic
sexuality, and equal parts scary mystery. Carlos enters into a world that slowly
decides to drag him down into a darkness. The local news is about acts of
depravity, happening in the local area. There is a psycho-sexual aspect to this
film. An exploration into a world of random sexual encounters, and the horrors
that might come with it.
A dark film. Solid and brilliant acting by all. The
direction is flawless. The storyline is very deep, and very oddly erotic. The
movie is very interesting, and it’s very hard to explain if you haven’t seen
it. I don’t want to give too much away, and that is way I am trying to be very
scarce. I think its biggest accomplishment is taking many plot lines, or
stories, and creating a mystery of the characters. You really never know where
it’s going. Loved the Drama, or Psychological twist.
The movie is filmed brilliantly. The camera work, long
shots, and dramatic lighting give it a beating heart as if you’re watching
moments happen. You’re the spy, the voyeur. The movie is like entering a world
of an art-house film. The camera work along with the subject matter, and the
mysterious characters, create an emotional baggage upon the viewer. It’s an
emotional baggage that I wish to explore, because the film itself is an
emotional calamity.
Joan Bentalle is strikingly brilliant as the character of
Carlos. He is able to make you feel his tension, desire, heated intensity, and
most of all the lingering, and wondering of what is about to happen. Aimar Vega
is the true winner of the show. He created Toni to be remembered. He displayed
a haunting and yet deeply, dark, sexuality that makes you want to question your
own thoughts. That is also something so brilliant about this film is Marcal
Fores, created, and directed a film, that you really, should not like the
characters. There is a dirty, gritty feeling. It almost leads you to want to
take a bath.
A great, odd, dark film, with deeper aspects of sex, and
erotic diversity. Intense. Highly Recommended. It is a unique, and very original
film. Great acting. Great direction, and an equally great mysterious story.
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