Testosterone
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Actor: Antonio Sabato Jr., Celina Font, David Sutcliffe, Jennifer Coolidge, Leonardo BrzezickiBrand: REL
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Strand Releasing
Movie Reviews of Testosterone
Movie Review: Good Movie Despite Transgressions Against The Book
Summary: 5 Stars
TESTOSTERONE as directed by David Moreton based on a novel by the same name by the late (and much lamented) James Robert Baker is a major breakthrough in Hollywood cinema. This is a film about gay romance and passion treated like a major feature film instead of a low budget, art house only, shadowed `alternative lifestyle' movie. What a relief to see a story that is not sugar coated or desultory or tragically bleak: gay characters of all types people TESTOSTERONE and there is not a stereotype in the film.
Essentially the story concerns a passionate two-week love affair (very cleverly introduced in the titles by comic book type characters - a suggestion of the class act that is to follow) between Dean (David Sutcliffe in a major role at last!) who successfully creates comic books and Pablo (Antonio Sabato, Jr. in a wonderfully open, nude, passionate physical performance) who is a sex addict.
Pablo `disappears' one evening while out for cigarettes and Dean's stable, successful, and sexually satisfying world suddenly explodes. Dean's search for Pablo results in a frightening encounter with Pablo's mother (the always terrific Sonia Braga) who haughtily tells him Pablo has returned to his home in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Dean hops on a plane to Buenos Aires and begins his search for Pablo, encountering a waitress Sofia (Celine Font, an excellent actress) and a strange `stalker' Marcos (a brilliant and sensual Leonardo Brzezicki) who Dean later discovers are brother and sister. Marcos comes on to Dean and there is more steamy passion at hand until Marcos tells Dean he is an ex-lover of Pablo. Dean is helped by a bellhop Guillermo (another terrific introduction of a fine looking Latin actor - Dario Dukah), by Sofia, by Marcos (who has agenda all his own) and ultimately by Pablo's mother who has returned from Los Angeles to her home in Buenos Aires.
At this point some `truths' are uncovered and a taste of revenge and intrigue begin to enter an otherwise comic mood: the ending unwinds in a way that should be seen, not related (`All's fair in love and war').
All of the actors are first class: it is so refreshing to see real professional male actors unafraid to be filmed in nude sexual encounters between men. Jennifer Coolidge as Dean's boss Louise adds enormously to the quality of comedy. The cinematography is lush and atmospheric and the musical score by Marco D'Ambrosio has the undertone of lilting tango rhythms that propels the story well. A FIRST CLASS FILM that deserves a wide audience, an audience that will please not only the large gay contingent eager to see their stories treated seriously but also the general who love excellent caper films laced with comedy and style.
Summary of Testosterone
This dark film noir comedy finds Dean (David Sutcliffe of TV?s Gilmore Girls & Under the Tuscan Sun) obsessed with finding his hot lover Pablo (Antonio Sabato, Jr.) who went out for cigarettes and never came back. Pablo?s mother is played by Sonia Braga of Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Dean?s boss is played by Jennifer Coolidge of Best in Show and the American Pie films.Similar DVD Movies
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