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Dark Blue Almost Black

If your life is not the color you like... Change it!

2006 · 1h 45m · N/A Drama, Romance
Directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo

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Jorge is a young man whose plans for the future are put on hold when his father has a stroke. For seven years, he diligently nurses his father and works as a janitor while studying part time to get a business degree. When Natalia, his childhood crush, returns from a stint studying abroad, Jorge begins to yearn for something better. He is desperate to find a new and better job, but finds that no one will hire him because he has experience only as a janitor. Antonio, Jorge’s older brother, soon to be released from jail, is an opportunist who has never gotten along with their father. In prison, at a theater workshop, Antonio meets Paula, a beautiful young woman in jail on drug charges. Paula has a problem because she flirted with another inmate's boyfriend.

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74%
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Rotten

Director Daniel Sanchez Arevalo would have done well leaving a few subplots on the cutting-room floor. Quality almost always is better than quantity.

V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh

Bifurcated images, isolating the characters from their dreams and from one another, create a yearning atmosphere that pulls you in; like their director, you really want them to escape.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten

Tells [a] ludicrously compact, aggressively 'heartfelt,' colorfully contrived story.

Nathan Lee, Village Voice
Fresh

What could have seemed insufferably self-pitying becomes strangely moving instead -- a sign of a filmmaker placing his absolute trust in their material and coming up all the stronger for it.

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh

Writer/director Aravalo and a fine cast tell the story with great charm.

Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter

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