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Jun 8, 2016 · 4 min read. While the fact that Lorenzo Vigas ’ polished but clichéd “From Afar” won the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival suggests that it must have been a particularly weak year for the world’s oldest major film fest, there’s an appropriate irony in the victory’s locale.
Jun 7, 2016 · “From Afar” initially appears to be a docudrama about furtive gay desire in a Latin American culture with a powerful taboo against homosexuality. But Armando’s next encounter with another young...
- Stephen Holden
- Lorenzo Vigas
While technically good and masterfully acted, this movie tells us a bleak story that's not necessarily interesting or especially meaningful. It's a good retelling of a tale of human misery, make of this what you will.
Jun 16, 2016 · Review: ‘From Afar’ is a tense, affecting gay romance. By Justin Chang. June 16, 2016 2:20 PM PT. The opening shots of “From Afar,” Lorenzo Vigas’ assuredly tense and roiling debut...
Box office. $148,594 [1] From Afar (Spanish: Desde allá) [2] is a 2015 Venezuelan-Mexican drama film directed by Lorenzo Vigas and written by Vigas and Guillermo Arriaga. It won the Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. [3][4][5] It was selected as the Venezuelan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th ...
Award / Film FestivalCategoryRecipient(s)ResultAudience Award New AuteursNominatedBest FilmFrom AfarNominatedBest New DirectorLorenzo VigasWonBest Adapted ScreenplayLorenzo VigasNominatedOct 5, 2016 · Debutant director Lorenzo Vigas’s ‘From Afar’ is an emotionally quenching, heartbreaking and brilliant film about alienation and obsession. It pushes its moral compass so deep into the minds on its characters that the ambiguity in their actions take unexpected turns.
From Afar is an intelligent, daring, brilliantly constructed and acted film, announcing yet another Latin director who understands the virtue of restraint. His work here also resists easy categorisation: it’s a film involving homosexuality and homophobia that isn’t queer cinema; it offers an authentic view of his troubled country’s ...
