GLUE
Directed by Alexis dos Santos


A comedy/drama set in a small town in vast, empty Patagonia – the gawky Lucas, a young time bomb of hormones, boredom, and family alienation, hangs out with his hunky and horny best friend, Nacho, and bespectacled, mousey gal pal, Andrea. The threesome cope with the trials of burgeoning adolescence by getting high and getting off, mostly, in variations with each other.

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Argentina / 105 min. / in Spanish with English subtitles



Jury Award – best First Feature
Frameline SF International LGBT Film Festival 2007

Young Jury Award -Golden MovieSquad Shield
VPRO Tiger Awards Competition
International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2006

Best Film
Buenos Aires International Film Festival BAFICI 2006

Audience Award
Buenos Aires International Film Festival BAFICI 2006

Jury Award for Best Film by a young Latin American director
Buenos Aires International Film Festival BAFICI 2006

Honorary Mention from STANDARD Readers' Jury
VIENNALE - Vienna International Film Festival 2006

Best Actor - Nahuel Perez BISCAYART
Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes, 2006

Young Jury Award
Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes, 2006







"A beautiful and subtle coming-of-age drama!"
THE ADVOCATE

"  Powerful and poignant! Stunning!"
Gary Kramer, INSTINCT MAGAZINE

"This award-winning feature by first-time filmmaker Alexis Dos Santos reflects an intensity possible only by a talented risk-taking cast and a story rooted in the director's intimate knowledge of his subject."
FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER, NEW YORK

"Beautifully and earnestly portrayed, and filmed with such an ethereal other-worldliness, there isn't a moment in the movie you feel you've seen done quite this way before."
Rene Rodriguez, THE MIAMI HERALD

"Captures the adolescent experience with rare and bracing veracity!"
Michael Rechtschaffen, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"  Alive with truth and discovery! The writer-director's camera is as fluid and sticky as the sexuality of his characters!"
Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE

"Stunningly erotic!"
Charlie Olsky, INDIEWIRE.COM

"A richly poetic ode to budding adolescent sexuality!"
Roberto Friedman, BAY AREA REPORTER

“If you are going to see anything at this year’s festival see GLUE!”
Erica Marcus and Anita Bowen, SF BAY TIMES

"(Director Alexis) Dos Santos also creates a tactile emotional space - the nexus of heartache, loneliness, and punk attitude - with utter realism."
Gary Kramer, GAY CITY NEWS

"Alexis Dos Santos's GLUE, from Argentina, serve(s) as an example of how to refresh and make strange a perennial subject. There has lately been a flood of coming-of-age movies, but what makes GLUE somewhat exceptional is its intimate, lyrical atmosphere and its almost abstract, painterly use of video."
A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“As enjoyable and riveting as it is naturalistic. Hip, introspective and amusing!”
Eric Moore, PHILADELPHIA INT'L GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL

“The underlying honesty of the story and the performances make (Glue) resonate long after it’s over.”
Mike Caccioppoli, CC2K

“…Director Alexis Dos Santos creates a touching, bitingly funny, and very real portrait of coming of age. With a killer soundtrack and daring performances by some of the new stars of Argentina´s next generation of actors, Glue will take you back to those awkward and excruciating teenage years like no other film.”
LATIN WAVE FILM FESTIVAL, THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON

"Awkwardness, obsession with sex and homoeroticism have all been seen before in the context of growing up. But Dos Santos' vision is one of the more honest ones. Perez Biscayart (gives a) magnetic performance."
Jay Weissberg, VARIETY

“Exhilarating! GLUE is that rare kind of filmmaking so attuned to pleasure and spontaneity that it tickles your palate, opening up new possibilities about how to live.”
Johnny Ray Huston, SF BAY GUARDIAN

"GLUE rides high on its zest for life and discovery which is felt in all areas; from the acting, the mise-en-scene and the cinematography through to the editing.
What an adventure it is!"
EUROPEANFILMS.NET

"One of the most inspired choices made by the (New Directors / New Films) festival programmers was to open with its strongest selection, the Argentinian "Glue", a beautiful, hazy look at adolescent longing in rural Patagonia. Underscored by The Violent Femmes, with inspired angst and sexual ambiguity in a sun-baked, dusty world, the film is a sort of positivist "Kids" that truly loves its protagonists."
Charlie Olsky, INDIEWIRE.COM

"We wanted GLUE to open the (New Directors / New Films) festival because it showed off so well exactly what we think of when we think of new directors. Every moment of the film shows the energy, vision and experimentation of a young, exciting filmmaker."
New Directors / New Films Series at MOMA Curator Marian Masone from the Film Society Of Lincoln Center speaking with Charlie Olsky of Indiewire.com

"Its cast of supple young non-pros run through their characters’ sensual self-actualizations with soul-and-body-baring bravery."
EYE WEEKLY

"A sticky, poetic reflection on carnal pleasure intensely keyed to the wonderful-miserable experience of being an outsider teen."
Ed Gonzalez, THE VILLAGE VOICE

"Upsetting all clichés about horny teens, particularly Latin teens, Glue is rhapsodic about the sloppy highs of adolescence, filmed in a dreamlike haze. Slow-motion and saturated colors give the film the texture of a wet dream from which you never want to awake."
David Lamble, BAY AREA REPORTER

"A! Explorations into sexual orientation make this a hot and edgy coming of age film. But it’s the cast – Nahuel Perez Biscayart as Lucas, Nahuel Viale as Nacho and Ines Efron as Andrea – that makes this drama unforgettable! "
Ebony March, CAMPUS CIRCLE





Interview with the director
Deleted scenes
Trailer
Widescreen
Coming attractions
Scene selections
Dolby 5.1 & 2.0 stereo sound






2008 Latin American Film Festival - Univ of CA, Irvine
2007 New Directors/New Films – Opening Night Film
2007 Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
2007 Seattle International Film Festival
2007 Miami International Film Festival
2007 Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival
2007 Cleveland International Film Festival
2007 Milwaukee LGBT Film and Video Festival
2007 Latin Wave: New Films from Latin America Film Festival
2007 BucharEST International Film Festival
2007 Istanbul Festival of Independent Films
2007 MOSAIQUES Festival (France)
2007 Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
2007 Newport International Film Festival
2007 NewFest New York LGBT Film Festival
2007 Vancouver Queer Film Festival
2007 Washington Latin American Film Festival
2007 Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
2007 Int'l Latino Film Festival – San Francisco Bay Area
2007 Out on Film Atlanta
2007 Olympia Film Festival
2007 Frameline Best of the Fest – San Francisco
2006 Toronto International Film Festival
2006 AFI Fest International Film Festival
2006 London Film Festival