A Thousand Clouds Of Peace

The full title of young Mexican director Julian Hernandez's soggy, oh-so-lyrical first feature is A THOUSAND CLOUDS OF PEACE FENCE THE SKY, LOVE, YOUR BEING LOVE WILL NEVER END, and if you think that mouthful smacks of a certain preciousness, you're right. To call it "poetic" is really being overly generous. With very little dialogue but striking black-and-white cinematography, Hernandez's debut unfolds in a blown-out, cloudy haze, while the emotions it holds within its fractured timeframe are buried so deep within 17-year-old Gerardo (Juan Carlos Ortuno) it's often difficult to piece together what, exactly, the film is supposed to be about. All available evidence po...