
Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and... (Full plot summary below)
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Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and forcing you to remember, believe and convince yourself.
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| Movie DearestFr. Chris Carpenter(Director Julian) Hernandez provides loads of sexy scenery but not much sense. The film is heavy on slow, sensual storytelling that more often than not demands viewers' intuition rather than offer clearly delineated characters and relationships. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinBy turns sexy and exasperating, hypnotic and confusing, this Mexican import is an art film for the patient, adventurous and, let's be honest, forgiving. |
| The New York TimesDavid DeWittIf you hang on, the slow-paced “I Am Happiness” may teach you how to appreciate its scoreless, flat, dreamlike flow. |
| Village VoiceAbby GarnettI Am Happiness on Earth's script is mostly filler between explicit, intensely choreographed sex acts. |
| The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberIt’s a pretty trying movie to watch, though it does have some striking images. |
| Slant MagazineDiego SemereneIf the film defies conventional form, it does so without the gravitas that conceptual cohesion brings, quickly rendering its experimentation into gratuitous aesthetic masturbation. |
| Butaca AnchaJJ NegreteA film that is impeccable from a formal point of view, but that begins to stumble with the limits of its speech. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Butaca AnchaJorge (JJ) NegreteA film that is impeccable from a formal point of view, but that begins to stumble with the limits of its speech. [Full review in Spanish] |
| User ReviewAndré DIt's a great film from the only new master of cinema that the 21st Century has produced. |
| User ReviewKen CSuch a boring film to have such beautiful young men playing in it. |