Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

John McElwain The Peruvian journalist Pedro Salinas writes, "Behind Gods, the movie, lurks a revolutionary, a teacher from the magic of living, who at the point of close-ups and frames studied achieved a description of one of the usual problems of Peru... Mendez set out boldly onto the screen his vision of a minority of Peruvian in which everyone talks, they meet, they drink and they are happy, while another Peru, a most impoverished majority, serves the needs of this frivolous few." This richly drawn, psychologically complex film paints a dark picture of a privilege life side by side with poverty in Peru. But Mendez' use of a light hand, an unsparing humor, beautiful bodies and settings make for an enjoyable and thought provoking hour and a half.

imdb-6184 Just saw this at the Gasparilla International Film Festival in Tampa. Among the variety of selections this year, I was most impressed with this film produced under the global lens initiative. The more we are afforded a glimpse into our global brothers and sisters, the more we can understand that we are alike. I commend the filmmaker for his honest commentary on what plagues us as a creature on this earth. As we race through our lives at breakneck speed, destroying all in our path, this film offers a pause to consider how removed we've become from ourselves, others emotionally and spiritually. I hope this film receives more screenings around the world to remind all of us of our mortality, and fallibility as humans. Provocative .