A Year Without Love

A Year Without Love
A Year Without Love
Spanish	Un año sin amor
Directed by	Anahí Berneri
Written by	Anahi Berneri; Pablo Pérez
Produced by	Daniel Burman; Diego Dubcovsky
Starring	Juan Minujín; Mimí Ardú
Cinematography	Lucio Bonelli
Edited by	Alex Zito
Music by	Martín Bauer; Leo García
Distributed by	Distribution Company; BD Cine
Release date	2005;
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 Anahí Berneri, and written by Berneri and Pablo Pérez, adapting Pérez's autobiographical novel of the same title.^[1]

The plot follows Pablo, a writer dealing with loneliness and AIDS. Yearning for love, he places ads 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 Ardú as Pablo's aunt
Carlos Echevarría as Nicolás
Bárbara Lombardo [es] as Julia
Javier Van de Couter as Martín
Osmar Núñez as Commissar Báez
Ricardo Merkin as Pablo's father
Carlos Portaluppi [es] 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.

References

^ Pulver, Andrew (2006-04-28). "A Year Without Love". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-11-18.

External links

A Year Without Love at cinenacional.com (in Spanish).
A Year Without Love at IMDb
A Year Without Love at AllMovie

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[1] Pulver, Andrew (2006-04-28). "A Year Without Love". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-11-18.

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