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Selection of press quotes about our
film:
NEW
YORK TIMES
Vincent Canby |
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Frank, a (HIV infected) former Lufthansa steward, goes back to Rio from
Germany with a film crew to look for Mario, a young man with whom he
had a one night stand. Before Mario departed the morning after, he left
a message scrawled in soap on the bathroom mirror: 'Welcome to the AIDS
club'. Frank and his director hire a fast talking huster named José
(Guilherme di Padua) to help them to find Mario who seems alway to have
just left whenever they arrive. Via Appia (is) the nickname of a Rio
district where male prostitutes hang out..."
BRITISH
FILM INSTITUTE
Mark Finch |
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"VIA APPIA is a compelling film about a hellish world of racism,
voyeurism and prostitution."
EDGE
MAGAZINE
Robert Ellsworth |
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"VIA APPIA is a sexy, exciting film... that is both stimulating and
suspenseful, an interesting combination of Hitchcock and Jodorowsky."
LOS
ANGELES TIMES
Kevin Thomas |
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"Of high order... VIA APPIA is complex, yet illuminating..."
BAY
AREA REPORTER
Daniel Mangin |
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"Sexy, misterious and disturbing, VIA APPIA (is) a stunning piece of
filmmaking..."
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