Synopsis
If you fuck with the bull, you get the horn!
Mala Noche is the film debut from director Gus Van Sant. The film portrays the unanswered love of an American man toward a young Mexican man.
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Mala Noche
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Spoken Languages
Alternative Titles
Noite Ruim, Bad Night
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Releases by Date
Theatrical
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USANR
11 Aug 1986
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UK15
13 Sep 2007
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PortugalM/16
Releases by Country
Portugal
13 Sep 2007
- TheatricalM/16
UK
11 Aug 1986
- Theatrical15 Edinburgh International Film Festival
USA
05 Feb 1986
- TheatricalNR
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I don't care how edgy, experimental or financially genius this is, I disliked it so much because of its racist approach.
I agree with this review I found on IMDb wherein the author says that 'All characters of color were portrayed as subhumans whose purpose in life was merely as distractions to the only intellectual and cultured person in the film.'
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feel like i'd enjoy this movie's techniques and stylistic choices that were probably groundbreaking for indie cinema if it wasn't centered around a dude trying to lure underage immigrant homeless boys into fucking him.
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Fuck it. Do I need him that badly? Am I that desperate? .... Of course I am.
Criterion Collection Spine #407
After watching this I hope Gus Van Sant never makes another film about race ever again. For all of our sakes.
The way that it looks like River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho is modeled aesthetically directly after the main character. His style looks so much like River Phoenix it is crazy.
I don't know if Gus Van Sant was trying to make social commentary on racial ignorance or if the writing was just racially ignorant. Is the main character a protagonist or antagonist? He is one of the worst people I've ever seen. He is a predator.…
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My dads lifelong bestie played Roberto (RIP🥹). Finally got a chance to see this myself for the first time, very beautifully shot. Just a very matter of fact movie about young people making unhealthy choices and exploiting each other. But also a very sad display of desire and the dysfunctional ways it can be acted upon as a queer person in the 80s
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Mala Noche was always going to be of interest as Gus Van Sant’s debut feature but it is important for other reasons too. It establishes a number of themes that will recur throughout Van Sant’s filmography: the Portland, Oregon setting (you could pull together a knockout Melbourne Cinematheque season based around that location), his focus on teenagers and young men at the margins, drug dealers and gay hustlers, gay characters who sit well outside the middle class, white, gay characters who have colonised more recent gay cinema, and even his trademark time-lapse cloud formations. The film is also important as a major influence on the New Queer Cinema directors and a link between directors like Fassbinder, Akerman and Babenco, for…
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2020 First Time Watches Ranked“Fuck it. Do I need him that badly? Am I that desperate?...Of course I am.”
Before anything else, Mala Noche makes a pretty compelling case for why filmmakers should at least initially approach every feature as if they were working with a spartan budget. Gus Van Sant's "official" first feature-length film (Van Sant had previously directed a never-released comedy film), Noche is a messy but excitingly gutsy queer film whose imperfections are overcome by a naturalistic approach and consistently superb eye-catching cinematography. Elements such as spotty performances and odd dubbing would, in a lesser film, be hindrances but here they somehow come across as the products of…
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Queer Cinema Challenge 2023 (link)
Week 10: Gus Van Sant
Gus Van Sant's debut film is from the first phase of his career in its focus on the seamy side of pre-gentrification Portland. Shot on a shoestring budget with grainy- often dark and shadowy - b/w photography, it has an episodic and improvised feel. We follow Walt, a grungy young-20s guy who works in a discount liquor store and has a "thing" for Mexican street youth. Seen as provocative in its time, it hasn't aged well.
This is sometimes heralded as an example of New Queer Cinema. But it is not really a celebration of being gay, although Walt's lust and longing for undocumented Johnny (says he's 18, is likely…
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Criterion Collection - #407Review In A Nutshell:
There will be filmmakers that one would easily find a connection with and some would be difficult to appreciate; not completely understanding their sense of style and the thematic or emotional intentions they bring to their film. Gus Van Sant falls on the latter, with the films I have seen from him, so far, have caused me emotional alienation towards the characters he follows. It might be because he captures these characters with a story that does not rely on a basic three act arc and aiming for something more raw and honest.
Mala Noche is another film from the director that deals with homosexuality, but like My Own…
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Honestly don’t know what Van Sant was trying to say because I felt like this was pretty fucking racist. I couldn’t tell if it was for satire or if it’s really that tone deaf. Walt used these young nonwhite boys for himself. Like he really did not get that he was in the position of power, and how Pepper most definitely felt pressured into having sex with him because Walt could call the police or kick him out at anytime. I really can not tell what the fuck this is. Am I not getting something? I give it one star for the editing and style I guess.
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