Everlasting Love (2014) User Reviews

Two stars for the atmosphere...

[canireallywin · 4/10 · 12 March 2020]

Two stars for the atmosphere and two stars for some decent acting. Zero stars for everything else.

Not much can be said about this film, except that it gets increasingly silly and ridiculous all the way up until the climax, which was quite frankly a joke. We're supposed to believe that a skinny and underdeveloped late teenager can overpower a beefy, fully developed middle-aged man, which is completely absurd - men's muscles aren't even fully developed till 30! Having been a skinny late teen trying to fend off a beefy middle aged man myself, I can tell you the difference in strength is huge. So much so that even though I was giving it my all, I may as well have not been trying. So in reality, the teacher would've dominated any of those teenagers easily.

There's also a subtext of "how dare an older man have sex with a much younger but nevertheless still legal younger man!".

We're supposed to pity or sympathise with the younger guy, but he's quite frankly an idiot with no sense whatsoever. The moral relating to the subtext is quite plainly:

"Do that and you deserve to be abused and tortured."

If you believe that's a good moral to go by, then I guess you'll enjoy this film, so long as you have unbreakable suspension of disbelief.

Meat Lovers Special

[elxacal · 1/10 · 27 October 2015]

Summary: In a forest on the outskirts of Barcelona, couples (and groups) of various persuasions and inclinations meet for sexual congress. Also in this forest, there exists a group of broken-hearted cannibals who seek either revenge or eternal love (or perhaps both) by eating the lovers who jilted them. It is in this forest where our protagonists Carlos, a university instructor of Chinese, and Toni, one of his students and also a member of the group of jilted cannibals, meet, have a sexual liaison in the back of Carlos' car, and then part company. Carlos intends for this to be a one-time exchange. Toni, on the other hand, hopes for more. Neither Carlos' nor Toni's motivations are explored beyond the backseat of Carlos' car. Carlos somewhat coldly rebuffs Toni's further pursuit. Despite his sexual infatuation, Toni enlists the assistance of his group of heartbroken cannibal friends to do what they do.

One night, Toni asks Carlos for a ride home from school. When Carlos' car won't start, three of Toni's cannibal friends happen by and offer to drive Carlos and Toni home. The quartet of horny cannibals taunt Carlos into inviting them in for a drink. Carlos, either not sensing danger, or perhaps drawn by it, agrees to bring the whole party home. After Toni and Carlos engage in one final sexual exchange (Spoiler: Carlos is versatile, in an equal-opportunity kind of way, i.e. he flips with gusto), the other cannibals come into the post-coital bedroom, Toni bonks Carlos on the head with a blunt object, Carlos regains consciousness only to find himself chained down, Toni stabs Carlos in the heart, then engages in an act of eternal love by eating Carlos' heart while the rest of the cannibals consume the rest of Carlos. They then leave Carlos' burned remains hanging in the forest to be found. The End.

I experienced this delightfully uplifting film presented as part of the Newfest Queer Horror Night, though Mr.Forés appears to fancy it as more of a love story thana horror film. For me, this film failed on both counts. Forés' work suffers by projecting image and mood over coherent narrative. Where thebest horror films are grounded in some degree of plausible reality,Forés' work suffers by failing to develop a realistic context in whichthe acts of extreme horror occur. The forest seems like an unreal'otherworld' from the beginning. The film also fails to develop anyempathy for, or identification with, or understanding of the protagonists. They are little more than sex-driven zombies. Thus the viewer is left with unsympathetic characters in an implausible context, to be bombarded by the director's visual and aural whimsy. The sex is not sexy, the graphic is not particularly extreme, and the horror is mostly banal.

In the after-film Q&A, Mr.Forés attempted to invoke Dalí's supposed quote that "Cannibalism is one of the surest signs of affection." as inspiration for this mercifully brief (69-minute...69 HA! I get it!) snuff film. Forés seems however to have divorced Dalí's metaphor for the Spanish Civil War from its context, and in Amor Eterno serves the notion raw and literal. Unfortunately, appropriating an outrageous verbal confection by Dalí is not nearly enough to elevate this failed video project into art.

There should be a "minus star" system for garbage like this

[BILLYBOY-10 · 23 January 2018]

Middle age teacher falls for young student, ends up getting eaten by same, then burned and skeleton hanged from tree. Delightful. Sick minds making movies.

Really creepy

[danieljmcewen · 3/10 · 25 March 2022]

I was okay with it in the beginning. "Boy" meets man while cruising. Boy is smitten but it's largely a one-way street. All of this is fine. Then we have the end. It is twisted and disturbing.

lugubrious student - teacher infatuation

[sugarfreepeppermint · 7/10 · 12 February 2015]

This film from the director who made Animals (2012), replicates the same quietly brooding atmosphere as aforementioned film. A shy introvert teenage boy accidentally crosses paths with his teacher in a cruising area in the local woods, and thereafter attempts to strike up a love affair with him. The romance that ensues is of a tenebrous kind. Moreover, strange secondary characters and bizarre incidents foreshadow something gloomy to occur.

There are two scenes in the film, that can be considered Indie music videos. These two featured songs make for nice little sidescapes from the main mood of the film, whilst suiting the narrative perfectly.