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'End Of The Century': When Sex With A Stranger ... Isn't, Quite

Julio Castro's tale of two men who hook up in Barcelona, only to realize they'd shared a similar encounter 20 years before, is full of big ideas bogged down by "mushy drama."
Two strangers uncover a mutual, lost history amid the heat of a Barcelona summer in Julio Castro's feature debut, <em>End of the Century. </em>

, which features a sexual encounter between two men, Ocho and Javi, before they realize they had a similar encounter with each other twenty years prior, is about time: How it stretches, folds, circles back on itself and repeats. It's also about how our time here seems at once infinite and fleeting. And how, importantly, our time is irreversible. These are themes that, I imagine, lands

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