Two men who meet in Barcelona have an unsettling feeling of deja vu in this elegant if insubstantial dramaEnd of the Century, from first-time director Lucio Castro, is a post-coital reverie of a movie, a musingly light meditation on sex, love, monogamy and freedom, pondering the empty fridge of singledom and the full fridge of marriage.
It balances what is with what might have been and what could still be, and, although the result is maybe a bit less substantial than Castro intended, there is a certain literary elegance in the way he sketches it out.Juan Barberini plays Ocho, an Argentinian guy who is in Barcelona on holiday on his own.
After checking into his Airbnb, he wanders around town, goes down to the beach and notices an attractive man there: Javi (Ramon Pujol).
Later, while looking out from his balcony in the evening, he notices this same
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