Land of Storms
Land of Storms
| 08 February 2014 (USA)
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Szabolcs plays in a German football team, as does Bernard. They are roommates, best friends, inseparable. A lost match makes him reconsider his life and he goes back to Hungary in hope for more simplicity. Yet his solitude does not last long. Soon after his arrival he meets Áron and a mutual attraction between the two boys develops when suddenly Szabolcs receives an unexpected phone call from Bernard: he has arrived to Hungary...

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Reviews
Limerculer

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

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SteinMo

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

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Ketrivie

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

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Nayan Gough

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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ort_moran

Everything was absolutely beautiful. Until the end..!! What the hell?! Aron doesn't seems a guy who would kill a fly, so why over a sudden he put a knife in his lover stomach?! Its just doesn't seems logic. Its ruins the film for me!! I was so schock and overwhelming. Its just not logic!!!

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Paulo Nim (pas-junior)

Despite me giving a 10 out of 10, I didn't like the movie. I only gave it such a high grade because I don't see any flaws in it, its writing is rather good.But before I dwell on the film itself, let me make a mini rant. Why do almost all gay romance movies feature the exact same structure? Two guys fall in love, they never had experience with the same sex before. One of them is more out and open-minded and accepts his feelings easily. The other is more 'masculine', probably dates a girl or has a wife and kids, and he denies his feelings. The out one pursues the other like a stalker with no self-respect and call it love. In the end, usually, the 'masculine' rejects the love. Most of the time, the effeminate dies. Other common elements are the homophobic society and absurd lack of ability of the characters to talk. I mean, why do they always talk so little, only a few small sentences. Why is it always so vague and sometimes cryptic? Is it some sort of artistic design I don't understand, but they all share? End of mini-rant.The movie is sweet and moves along at a nice pace. I got to say that happens more in this movie than in most of gay-themed movies. It shows very nicely how society can be cruel and how love is beautiful and then people ruin it. It felt, to me, like a period piece, I mean the village or whatever in which the story happens seems so outdated, but it might be the portrayal of existing rural places I've never been to. But they don't even talk about being gay, they talk about "being like that" and other vague sentences. I thought specially interesting how Aron's character is written. I also thought it would make more sense for him to suicide after killing his lover, at least from my point of view. It is also stated the movi is based on a real story. If it is, then the ending could not be changed. In this case, throughout its extension, the file lacked a 'punch', it would be more effective if it was more emotional and not so clean. Maybe the real story is not so gruesome too, but still the movie seems softon graphics, even if heavy on deepth. Ending my so-called review, I'd like to see this move, and others, being more original. But I guess you can't ask much of a movie made outside a big movie industry, which I'll bet it is the case.

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Tom Dooley

Two boys are talented football players in Germany Szabolcs is from Hungary and his best friend Bernard is German. Then after a particularly unfruitful game, Szabolc decides to return to Hungary and live in the broke down farm that he inherited from his grandfather.Whilst he had rejected his homosexual urges in Germany - once he gets home he meets Áron and for him it is a game changer. The thing is it is also a game changer for the whole community. To say any more may be veering in to plot spoiler territory. Needless to say there are depictions of homophobia here. Some may say that we have seen it all before, but films like this need to be made to address the still pervading attitudes in many countries and communities towards LGBT people.Filmed in Hungarian, German and a tad of English with good sub titles. This is done using an original story line, a group of talented actors and a lot of warmth. The decisions that some of the characters make may be questionable, but I am pretty safe in saying that we all have made mistakes in our lives. I found this to be engrossing, sensual - in parts - and ultimately moving; this is for lovers of gay cinema in all its parts.

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markbambach

Another gay film promoting homophobia. We've seen the likes of this film 1000 times before over the last 4 decades. I understand it's completely in theme with current homophobia within Eastern Europe. East Europe is just a step down from Africa and the Middle East as far as homophobia goes, its just unfortunate writers and film makers can't progress from 1970 to assist in making a change in that.The more films made like this one and the 1000 others the same, the less chance these countries will have to move forward. Must we have another Gay film where there is homophobia, Gay bashing and murder? Like I say, we've seen this film 1000 times before. Basically what this film is saying is that you will only have misery if you choose a gay path. There is no such thing as happiness in gay life. I would suggest anyone who is Gay doesn't watch this film, you will be bloody annoyed, frustrated, and bored at the outcome just as I was.It is actually a real shame they choose this path for the ending, it could have been a great film.

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