Movie

José

2020 · 85 min

A quiet, intimate immersion into a hard life, where small moments of tenderness and self-discovery feel fragile and hard-won.

Tagline: A simple story about love
Overview: José lives with his mother in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling sandwiches. He spends his days on crowded buses and in the streets delivering food. Resigned and aloof, in free moments he plays with his phone and looks for random sex. When he meets Luis, José is thrust into a dimension of passion and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest, bleak and romantic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Identity, love, isolation, family
Content: Strong sexual content. Mild violence and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
love
isolation
family
class
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong