The Drama: A Marriage of Discomfort and Empathy
This is not a film, it’s a drop tower. A drop tower that you don’t get off of for the vast majority of its 106-minute runtime.
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A young couple needs some place to have intimacy, so they use Arturo's grandmother place when she is not there, but Carlos has a problem: he can't do 'it' in front of the pictures of dead relatives. His boyfriend makes fun of him, but some months later he is the one who feels the picture's gaze.
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A young couple needs some place to have intimacy, so they use Arturo's grandmother place when she is not there, but Carlos has a problem: he can't do 'it' in front of the pictures of dead relatives. His boyfriend makes fun of him, but some months later he is the one who feels the picture's gaze.
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