África 815 (Spanish) (Documentary)

This is one of the most simple and boring documentaries Have seen in recent times. To be honest, it feels like someone's home video. Made by the daughter of the protagonist (at least thats what I presume), the subject is interesting but not that much. Gleaning her father’s photo archive and diaries, the director explores the failure of the traditional family project that her dad had contrived after serving in the military at the Spanish colony in Western Sahara. An intimate portrait of a man and his enchanting affection seeking journey during the 1980s and 90s in Morocco explored through the interstitial space between memory and landscape.

We are told the story in three parts. First how our protagonist served doctor in military in Africa in Sahara region in his 20s in closed confines with the shot North African men. To my surprise, according to him, homosexuality and relationship with other younger men were very easy for him and common there. But at some point in life, he wanted to have kids, which he could not with other men, so he married and had three beautiful kids. Then we go in 80s and 90s when our man spends time traveling and counts multiple incidents where he fell in love with hot young men only to eventually realize every single time that they were just using him to get out of Africa into Europe.

Sadly, the narrative is tied in the most boring way with long shots of nothingness. Thankfully, the only saving grace is all the beautiful pictures from his military days and then again form his travels. Our man was a very handsome young Spanish guy and I can see why equals hot young North African men would get attracted to him. All I enjoyed in this documentary was some extremely good looking men from back in the day and just appreciate the relative simplicity shown us in occurs form our man's archives. But the fact hat most of these men still used European guys for their benefit to move forward in life sounds very much like what happens today. So I guess this has been happening for a while. I would have loved to hear more details of these small intimate relationships that he had with these men, how they met, what they did etc., but all we get to see are some random pics of these men without any story one after the other. (2.5/10)

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