Demons at Dawn (Los demonios del amanecer)

Synopsis

“I’ll never stop loving you”—can anyone keep this promise? “Hot” dancer Orlando and “cute” nursing student Marco will try. They are hungry for one another’s kisses, unable to keep their hands off each other’s bodies. But fateful events signal they may be flying too close to the sun. Award-winning writer-director Julián Hernández is a gay-cinema icon inspired by the aesthetic approaches of auteur filmmakers such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Robert Bresson. He infuses his romantic drama with the careful choreography and elliptical scenes of avant-garde cinema as well as the “scorching hot” dance numbers and explicit sex scenes of popular art. Orlando (Luis Vegas) and Marco (Axel Shuarma) may come from different worlds within Mexico City, but Hernández reveals their similarities: the grace of Orlando’s lithe form like the finesse of a well-tucked hospital bed; the pursuit of success equivalent to a full-time occupation. After days spent studying anatomy—in and out of bedrooms—and a much-needed staycation on a homemade beach, their honeymoon meets reality. All along a mysterious recurring figure has stalked their lives like an ill omen, and lovesickness becomes an affliction they cannot stave off forever.

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